DeviceKitPower
Main Inclusion Report for devicekit-power
Requirements
Availability: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/d/devicekit-power; available for all supported architectures
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 gnome-power-manager
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 DeviceKit, d-bus, and PolicyKit higher level APIs
Quality assurance:
- Background daemon, not user visible. Works out of the box.
- No debconf.
- Not in Debian yet.
upstream is vigorous (Richard Hughes)
Upstream bug tracker: No bugs yet (but certainly to come, but Richard is responsive)
- Deals with laptop batteries, AC adapters, screen panel brightness; all of those are widely available for testing.
- No test suite.
UI standards: N/A, no UI, just D-Bus interface
Standards compliance:
FHS, Debian Policy compliant
- Simple standard cdbs/debhelper packaging, no patches
Dependencies:
Maintenance:
- How much maintenance is this package likely to need? Quite a lot, given its central role in power management. This maintenance effort will merely move from hal towards DK-power instead of being added to our stack.
- Canonical desktop team will look after the package in Ubuntu, maintenance will be shared with Debian's pkg-utopia team; hopefully the foundations team can contribute as well (Scott?)
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-power
Reviewers
MIR bug: 369191
MainInclusionReport/DeviceKitPower (last edited 2009-04-29 12:09:23 by pD9EB3337)