Main Inclusion Report for devicekit

Requirements

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

2. Rationale:

   • GNOME 2.27 (and the Linux world in general) will move from the huge and hard to maintain hal to several smaller and more agile components: DeviceKit as a small basic D-Bus interface to udev, and DK-{disks,power,*} as particular services.

   • Build/binary dependency of devicekit-power, which is in turn needed for current gnome-power-manager.

3. Security:

   • CVE entries: None

   • Secunia history: None

   • D-Bus activated service running as root, similar to hal.
   • No network activity.
   • Shallow source code review performed: no manual memory allocation, no sprintf or other insecure constructs, properly uses d-bus, udev, and glib higher level APIs

4. Quality assurance:

   • Background daemon, not user visible. Works out of the box.
   • No debconf.
   • Not in Debian yet.

   • upstream is vigorous

   • Upstream bug tracker: No bugs

   • Does not deal with particular hardware.
   • No test suite.

5. UI standards: N/A, no UI, just D-Bus interface

6. Standards compliance:

   • FHS, Debian Policy compliant

   • Simple standard cdbs/debhelper packaging, no patches

7. Dependencies: all in main

8. Maintenance:

   • How much maintenance is this package likely to need ? Little to none, DeviceKit itself has no logic, it's ust an interface shim (and will probably go away in the future completely, in favor of DK-* talking to udev directly)

   • MartinPitt will look after the package in Ubuntu, maintenance will be shared with Debian's pkg-utopia team.

9. Background information:

   • The general purpose and context of the package is be clear from the package's debian/control file.

   • What do upstream call this software? DeviceKit

Reviewers

MIR bug: https://launchpad.net/bugs/369185

The author of this report should put their name here; reviewers will add comments etc. too