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Requirements

1. Availability: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/i/irqbalance; available for all supported architectures.

2. Rationale:

   • Appart of the canonical-application-support spec.

3. Security:

   • No CVE entries.

   • No Secunia history.

   • Irqbalance runs as root due to the nature of the irqbalance.
   • No network activity.
   • It directly processes binary data.
   • No source code review done.

4. Quality assurance:

   • The situaations where irqbalance does not work out of the box is where there isnt more than one socket or CPU core.
   • No debconf questions are asked.

   • Debian bugs: #500985 - It previously had problems handling more than 255 interrupts however this is fixed.

   • Maintenance in Debian is vigorous.

   • Upstream is vigorous.

   • Upstream bug tracker: (mention any particularly relevant or critical)

   • This package deals with CPUs that have more than one socket or more than two cores.
   • There is no testsuite in irqbalance.

5. Standards compliance:

   • FHS and Debian Policy compliance ?

   • Uses debhelper with the quilt packaging system.

6. Dependencies:

   • debhelper
   • quilt
   • pkg-config
   • libglib2.0-dev
   • xutils-dev
   • lsb-base
   • All are in main.

7. Maintenance:

8. irqbalance is a simple package that doesnt need alot of maintenance, the Ubuntu server team will be responsible for this package.

Reviewers

MIR bug: https://launchpad.net/bugs/488835

ChuckShort