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This is a main inclusion report for beep-udeb.

• Source Package: beep
• Binary Package: beep-udeb

1. Availability: http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/pool/universe/b/beep/ - available in universe

2. Rationale: beep-udeb is a required udeb for debian-installer on armel, and is used to notify d-i status on boards such as the NSLU2 which don't come with a serial console, or an integrated display

3. Security: As beep-udeb is used only during and by the installer, security risks are negotiable at best. It simply beeps, and has no user interaction beyond that.

4. Quality assurance: beep-udeb has no bug reports on Ubuntu or Debian. Its parent package on Debian has minor bugs such as "it sounds bad on sparc". As beep works on x86/amd64, it is easily maintainable even without an ARM board

5. Standards Compliance: beep is source and binary lintian clean.

6. Dependency: libc is the only dependency for beep

7. Maintenance: This package has one simple function: make a beep on the internal speaker. Maintenance of this package will be extremely low.

Security concerns:

• beep is setuid, installed in /usr/bin, required to access the internal speaker.
• This program has no network functionality.