Main Inclusion Report for sourcepackage

Requirements

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

2. Rationale:

   • X.org has changed to disable by default the ctrl-alt-backspace shortcut for killing X
   • For Ubuntu we have opted to accept this change to the default, but wish to provide a mechanism (other than hand-editing xorg.conf) for users to toggle this on or off as desired.
   • This package implements a command line tool that can be called directly, or by the appropriate GNOME and KDE GUI administrative interfaces to change the settings.

3. Security:

   • CVE entries: none

   • Secunia history: none

   • Any binaries running as root or suid/sgid ? The utility needs to modify xorg.conf so won't really work if used as non-root, however this package makes no provisions to obtain or retain such privileges, leaving it up to the caller (which presumably would use policykit or other appropriate mechanisms)

   • Network activity: does it open any port ? No Does it handle incoming network data ? No

   • Does it directly (not through a library) process binary (video, audio, etc) or structured (PDF, etc) data ? No

   • Any source code review performed ? Yes I've reviewed all of the code of this package

4. Quality assurance:

   • In what situations does the package not work out of the box without configuration ? None

   • Does the package ask any debconf questions higher than priority 'medium' ? No

   • Debian bugs: None

   • Maintenance in Debian is frenetic/vigorous/calm/dead ? Not in debian yet

   • Upstream is frenetic/vigorous/calm/dead ? Calm

   • Upstream bug tracker: No known bugs for dontzap

   • Hardware: Does this package deal with hardware and if so how exotic is it ? No

   • Is there a test suite in the upstream source or packaging ? No Is it enabled to run in the build ? No

5. UI standards:

   • User-visible strings are internationalized using standard gettext system ? No As a command line tool, probably not needed

   • Package with translatable strings builds a PO template during package build ? No

   • End-user applications ship a desktop file ? No not a GUI program

6. Standards compliance:

   • FHS, Debian Policy compliance ? Yes

   • Debian library packaging guide standards compliance ? N/A

   • Packaging system? cdbs Patch system ? bzr Any packaging oddities ? No

7. Dependencies:

   • python-xkit, python-central, python-dev

   • Are these all in main ? Yes

8. Maintenance:

   • How much maintenance is this package likely to need ? None

   • Who is responsible for monitoring the quality of this package and fixing its bugs ? Alberto Milone Are they Ubuntu or Debian developers ? Ubuntu developer

9. Background information:

   • Tool for toggling DontZap option in xorg.conf

   • What do upstream call this software ? dontzap

10. Internationalization:

    • Are graphical applications translatable? Do they support gettext? Not GUI

Reviewers

MIR bug: https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dontzap/+bug/319159

BryceHarrington 2009-01-28