Main Inclusion Report for MTX

Requirements

1. Availability: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/m/mtx/ available for all architectures.

2. Rationale:

   • https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerPackageReview

3. Security:

   • http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=mtx: None

   • http://secunia.com/search/?search=mtx: None

   • No binaries running as suid/sgid root, no network daemon.
   • No network ports or activity.
   • Any source code review performed ?
     • no

4. Quality assurance:

   • In what situations does the package not work out of the box without configuration ?
     • Unsupported tape drives and media changer.
   • Does the package ask any debconf questions higher than priority 'medium' ?
     • no

   • Debian bugs:

     • Package is quite old and has been superseeded by a newer release upstream

   • Maintenance in Debian is dead (no release since 2006)

   • http://sourceforge.net/projects/mtx is calm

   • http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=4626: (mention any particularly relevant or critical)

   • Hardware: Yes, deals with tape changers if you dont know what you are doing you can risk freezing up your system.

5. Standards compliance:

   • FHS, Debian Policy compliance ?

     • yes

   • Debian library packaging guide standards compliance ?

     • yes
   • Packaging system (debhelper/cdbs/dbs) ? Patch system ? Any packaging oddities ?
     • No straightforward uses debhelper.

6. Dependencies:

   • autotools-dev
   • Are these all in main ?
     • Yes

Reviewers

https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mtx/+bug/184885

ChuckShort