Main Inclusion Report for sourcepackage

Requirements

1. Availability: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/p/partman-prep, powerpc only

2. Rationale:

   • Needed for installation on IBM Power5 systems.

3. Security:

   • No CVE entries.

   • No Secunia history.

   • Runs as root within the installer.
   • No binaries running as root or suid/sgid.
   • 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 (i.e. Debian).

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

5. Standards compliance:

   • Meets the FHS, Debian Policy

   • Meets Debian library packaging guide standards.

   • Normal design for a partman component.
   • Standard debhelper packaging.

6. Dependencies:

   • All in main.

Reviewers

I have reviewed this package, including doing some code review, and it seems sane. Approved. --IanJackson 7.2.2007