Main Inclusion Report for device-tree-compiler

Note, the actual name of this package is dtc, but there's already another program in Debian that uses this source/binary package name. To avoid possible conflicts, the name of this package was de-acronymed.

Requirements

1. Availability: Just uploaded to NEW, for powerpc only.

2. Rationale:

   • Build dependency of linux-source-2.6.20 for PS3 kernel.

3. Security:

   • No known security issues.
   • No suid/sgid binaries.
   • No cron jobs.
   • No network daemons or network connections used by the two programs included.
   • No source code review.

4. Quality assurance:

   • In what situations does the package not work out of the box without configuration? None

   • Does the package does ask any debconf questions higher than priority 'medium'? No debconf usage

   • Package is not in Debian.

   • http://dtc.ozlabs.org/: Upstream is active in development (GIT).

   • No upstream bug tracking.

   • Hardware: Does this package deal with hardware and if so how exotic is it? Not directly, no.

5. Standards compliance:

   • FHS, Debian Policy compliance ? Package is compliant

   • Debian library packaging guide standards compliance? No libraries in package

   • Packaging system (debhelper/cdbs/dbs) ? Patch system ? Any packaging oddities ? Uses debhelper, nothing odd, very simple

6. Dependencies:

   • Build: flex, debhelper

   • No other deps for installation.

Reviewers

MartinPitt: approved