Main Inclusion Report for update-motd

Requirements

1. Availability:

   • http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/u/update-motd/

   • binary packages needed in main: update-motd

   • same package for all supported architectures.

2. Rationale:

   • update-motd is a modular framework useful for Ubuntu servers, allowing administrators to dynamically generate more interesting /etc/motd; will be required by landscape-client

   • UpdateMotd

   • CVE entries - none

   • Secunia history - none

   • Binaries running as root or suid/sgid: none

   • Daemons: none; update-motd runs as a cron job if enabled

   • Network activity: no ports opened

   • Does not handle incoming network data

   • Does not directly (not through a library) process binary (video, audio, etc) or structured (PDF, etc) data

   • Source code review performed by: KeesCook, ChuckShort

3. Quality assurance:

   • Package works out of the box without configuration

   • The package does not ask any debconf questions higher than priority 'medium'

   • Debian bugs: not yet a Debian package

   • Upstream is new, we are upstream

   • Hardware: Does this package deal with hardware? - no

   • Test suite: none

4. Standards compliance:

   • FHS, Debian Policy compliant

   • Debian library packaging guide standards compliant

   • Packaging system (debhelper/cdbs/dbs) is debhelper

   • Patch system is none

   • No packaging oddities

5. Dependencies:

   • Runtime
     • cron, debianutils
   • Build
     • debhelper, po-debconf

   • Are these all in main? - yes

6. Background information:

   • The general purpose and context of the package is clear from the package's debian/control file. Quoting debian/control: update-motd - This package contains a generic framework for regularly running scripts and updating the /etc/motd. This package installs a cronjob that executes on a configurable, regular interval, running each script in /etc/update-motd.d, in lexical order. When the cronjob runs, the output of all scripts in /etc/update-motd.d will be concatenated and written to /etc/motd. Other packages, or users should symlink scripts into /etc/update-motd.d, pre-pending a 2-digit number to help with ordering.

   • It has not had different names in the past

Reviewers

MIR bug: 260443

• DustinKirkland