Main Inclusion Report for libcap-ng

Requirements

1. Availability: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/libc/libcap-ng; available for all supported architectures.

2. Rationale:

   • Build dependency of irqbalance.

3. Security:

   • CVE entries.

   • Secunia history.

   • No binaries running as root or suid/sgid.
   • No daemons.
   • No network activity.
   • It directly processes structured (PDF, etc) data.
   • No source code review.

4. Quality assurance:

   • The package should always work out of the box.
   • No debconf questions asked.

   • Debian bugs 553156

   • Maintenance in Debian vigorous.

   • Upstream is calm.

   • No upstream bug tracker.
   • No special hardware required.
   • No testsuite in the upstream bug report.

5. Standards compliance:

   • FHS and Debian Policy compliant.

   • Uses debhelper with no packaging system.

6. Dependencies:

   • debhelper, autotools-dev, libattr1-dev, chrpath, swig, python-all-dev, python-support.
   • All are in main.

7. Maintenance:

   • libcap-ng is a relatively simple package that the Ubuntu Server Team will be responsible for.

Reviewers

MIR bug: https://launchpad.net/bugs/496580

ChuckShort