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1. Availability: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/m/mt-st; available for all supported architectures or some subset ?

2. Rationale:

   • Runtime dependency for bacula.

3. Security:

   • No CVE entries.

   • Secunia history.

   • No binaries running as root or suid/sgid.
   • No daemons.
   • No Network activity
   • It does not directly (not through a library) process binary (video, audio, etc) or structured (PDF, etc) data.
   • No source code review done.

4. Quality assurance:

   • The situation where it does not work out of the box is

that it might not support the scsi tape drive.

• No debconf questions asked.

• Debian bugs:

• udev bug does not create a symlink.

• Maintenance in Debian is vigorous.

• Upstream is calm.

• No known upstream bug tracker.
• Deals with magntetic tape drive.
• No upstream test suite.

1. Standards compliance:

   • FHS, Debian Policy compliant.

   • Debian library packaging guide standards compliant.

   • Uses debhelper with dpatch system. No packaging oddities 0. Dependencies:

   • debhelper, dpatch
   • All are in main.

Reviewers

MIR bug: https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mt-st/+bug/286528

ChuckShort