Main Inclusion Report for powerman

Requirements

1. Availability: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/p/powerman; available for i386, amd64.

2. Rationale:

   • Build dependency of nut
   • Powerman allows to manage a wide range of Power Distribution Units (PDUs). Through it, NUT can offer its standardised layers (API, namespace, ...) and tools to manage both PDUs and UPSs

3. Security:

   • CVE entries: None

   • Secunia history: None

   • All the framework is working with the "powerman" user. This change (not running as root) was part of the initial Debianisation
   • Network activity: powermand opens the port 10101/tcp to receive client queries.
   • No binary or structured data processed.

   • A source code review has been performed by the Debian Developer (ArnaudQuette).

4. Quality assurance:

   • In what situations does the package not work out of the box without configuration ?
     • All the profiles are in complain mode by default. Powerman need to be told what device(s) are present.
   • Does the package ask any debconf questions higher than priority 'medium' ? No

   • http://bugs.debian.org/src:powerman:

     • Powerman is currently still blocked in the Debian new queue:

       http://ftp-master.debian.org/new/powerman_2.3.3-1.html

   • Maintenance in Debian is vigorous (but still waiting the initial inclusion!).

   • Upstream is vigorous.

   • Upstream bug tracker: no bug currently.

   • Hardware: this package adds support for Power Distribution Units (PDUs), which are common devices in Data Centers.

     • list of supported devices

   • An upstream test suite is available using "make check" for non regression testing.
     • This feature is not used during the build stage.

5. Standards compliance:

   • FHS, Debian Policy compliance ? Yes

   • Debian library packaging guide standards compliance ? Yes

   • Packaging system (debhelper/cdbs/dbs) ? debhelper + cdbs

6. Dependencies:

   • in universe:
     • genders: can be disabled by removing the Build-Depends in debian/control and --with-genders from DEB_CONFIGURE_EXTRA_FLAGS in debian/rules! but it's an interesting feature (MIR for Genders?!)
   • in main:
     • libwrap0-dev
     • libcurl4-gnutls-dev
     • libncurses5-dev

7. Maintenance:

   • How much maintenance is this package likely to need ? Simple
   • Who is responsible for monitoring the quality of this package and fixing its bugs ? upstream developer and Debian developer.

8. Background information:

   • this point is part of the Improved Power Management blueprint, which will help the Server Team

   • What do upstream call this software ? powerman

Reviewers

MIR bug: https://launchpad.net/bugs/337226

Author: ArnaudQuette