Main Inclusion Report for jack-audio-connection-kit

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Requirements

1. Availability: [http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/j/jack-audio-connection-kit]; Available for all supported architectures.

2. Rationale:

   • Build dependency of the 'jack' alsa plugin (now disabled in libasound2-plugins, see launchpad bugs [https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-plugins/+bug/197957 197957] and [https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-plugins/+bug/84900 84900])

   • ...

3. Security:

   • No [http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=jack CVE entries] known.

   • No [http://secunia.com/search/?search=jack Secunia history] known

   • Only binaries in jackd, none of which are suid/sgid: realtime capabilities are nowadays granted to users/groups though /etc/security/limits.conf
   • jackd is of course a daemon, but is not automatically started on startup
   • jackd does not listen for network connections itself - it requires the installation of a separately available 'netjack' driver for this.
   • No source code review is performed that we know of.

4. Quality assurance:

   • Jack needs some audio output device to connect to in order to start. This might fail if such a device is not available, or if another process is keeping a device occupied that does not support multiple concurrent connections.
   • Jack does not ask any debconf questions.

   • [http://bugs.debian.org/src:jack Debian bugs]: only wishlist items are open right now.

   • [http://packages.qa.debian.org/j/jack.html Maintenance in Debian] is calm

   • [http://jackaudio.org Upstream] is calm

   • [http://trac.jackaudio.org/jack/ Upstream bug tracker]: nothing particularly relevant or critical there either it seems

5. Standards compliance:

   • [http://www.pathname.com/fhs/ FHS], [http://www.de.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ Debian Policy] compliance ?

   • [http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/column/libpkg-guide/libpkg-guide.html Debian library packaging guide] standards compliance ?

   • Packaging system (debhelper/cdbs/dbs) ? Patch system ? Any packaging oddities ?

6. Dependencies:

   • ...
   • Are these all in main ?

7. Background information:

   • The general purpose and context of the package should be clear from the package's debian/control file. If it isn't then please explain.
   • What do upstream call this software ? Has it had different names in the past ?

Reviewers

MIR bug: [https://bugs.launchpad.net/BUGNUMBER]

The author of this report should put their name here; reviewers will add comments etc. too * Contributor: Arnout 'raboof' Engelen