Main Inclusion Report for dmraid

Requirements

1. Availability: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/d/dmraid, available for all supported architectures amd64/i386/powerpc/sparc

2. Rationale:

   • Needed for the use of "fakeraid" included on most modern motherboards
   • Needed to share partitions with for instance dual-booted Windows using fakeraid

   • Should be on the installer CD to allow installing to fakeraid arrays (see also bug #22107)

3. Security:

   • No CVE entries.

   • No Secunia history.

   • The /sbin/dmraid binary runs as root.
   • Does not open any port.
   • Source code review:

4. Quality assurance:

   • Package works out of the box without configuration.
   • Package does not ask any debconf questions higher than priority 'medium'.

   • No showstopper Debian bugs.

   • Good maintenance in Debian.

   • Active upstream. (mailing list)

   • No critical bugs in upstream bug tracker

   • Does not deal with exotic hardware which we cannot support.

   • Dedicated ubuntu-dmraid QA launchpad team.

5. Standards compliance:

   • Meets the FHS, Debian Policy

   • Meets Debian library packaging guide standards.

   • Standard debhelper/cdbs/dbs packaging, standard patch system.

6. Dependencies:

   • All in main.

Reviewers

MIR bug: [https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/191557

Author: Tormod Volden