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Launchpad Entry: server-packages-review
Packages affected:
Overview
Comparing ourselves to our coopetitors is a necessary task to know where we are at and decide where we could get better.
Comparison
Package proposal for MIR
We should categorize the missing ones in three categories.
- agreed: means that we both agreed that we should pull them in supported list and will work on a MIR for Hardy
- Rejected: agreed during UDS that it should not be pulled in main
Agreed
The following is a table of packages for which we now need to write a MainInclusionReport (MIR) following the MainInclusionProcess.
Status should be one of :
- Assigned
- In Progress
- Completed
- Accepted
Package |
Seed |
Owner |
Status |
URL |
Comment |
open-iscsi |
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Accepted |
Part of the iscsi specification. Poorly maintained by Debian |
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pam_apparmor |
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Done |
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amavisd-new |
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ScottK |
Accepted |
Package split to remove milter. |
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libberkeleydb-perl |
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ScottK |
Accepted |
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Amavisd-new dependency |
libunix-syslog-perl |
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ScottK |
Accepted |
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Amavisd-new dependency |
libmailtools-perl |
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ScottK |
Accepted |
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Amavisd-new dependency |
libconvert-uulib-perl |
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ScottK |
Accepted |
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Amavisd-new dependency |
libconvert-binhex-perl |
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ScottK |
Accepted |
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Amavisd-new dependency |
libfile-temp-perl |
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ScottK |
Accepted |
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Amavisd-new dependency |
mime-tools |
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ScottK |
Accepted |
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Amavisd-new dependency |
libconvert-tnef-per |
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ScottK |
Accepted |
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Amavisd-new dependency |
drbd |
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Accepted |
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acl |
X |
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Accepted |
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freeradius |
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Accepted |
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gawk |
X |
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Accepted |
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ibmasm |
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Pending MIR |
Accepted into archive. |
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heartbeat |
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Sorting things out with upstream |
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(version 2 or higher) |
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iscsitarget |
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Penind MIR |
I have created a patch for linux-ubuntu-modules that will be pushed to the kernel-team shortly. Module-assistant build should be disabled since it is not needed. |
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kvm |
server |
Accepted |
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acpica-unix |
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Accepted |
Build-dependency of kvm |
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vgabios |
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Accepted |
Dependency of kvm |
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logwatch |
X |
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Accepted |
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lmsensors |
X |
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Assuming this is lm-sensors which is already in main? |
lsscsi |
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Accepted |
No MIR filed. too simple package. |
Needs to be seeded so that it stays in main |
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libapache2-mod-auth-kerb |
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Accepted |
["ModAuthKrbReport]" |
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mtx |
X |
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Accepted |
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openIPMI |
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Accepted |
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openhpi |
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Natural depends and b-d for heartbeat |
opensm |
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libpam-krb5 |
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Accepted |
MainInclusionReportLibpam-krb5 |
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libpam-mount |
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Accepted |
MainInclusionReportLibPamMount |
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pam-p11 |
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Accepted |
No MIR. package is simple |
Needs libp11 from universe (No MIR) |
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libpam-radius-auth |
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Accepted |
No MIR. package is simple |
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sblim |
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see http://sblim.wiki.sourceforge.net/ Needs to be packaged looks complicated to package with many dependencies. |
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sg3-utils |
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Accepted |
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snort |
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Rejected |
MainInclusionReportSnort |
IMHO this should not land in main |
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vlock |
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Approved |
MainInclusionReportVlock |
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bacula |
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Accepted |
|
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nut |
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Accepted |
MainInclusionReportNut |
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arpwatch |
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Rejected |
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package is unmaintained and upstream is basically dead. No MIR filed and too many bugs reported that have gone unanswered. |
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openvpn |
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Accepted |
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rsnapshot |
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Rejected |
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package is unmaintained and upstream is basically dead. No MIR filed and too many bugs reported that have gone unanswered. |
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munin |
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Accepted |
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migrationtool |
X |
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Accepted |
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sysstat |
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Accepted |
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aoetools |
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Accepted |
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vblade |
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Accepted |
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Rejected
- amanda (tape backup) - NO
- dds2tar - NO
- apcupsd (in universe) NO
- pam_passwdqc - NO
- openxdas - NO
- lprng - NO
- latex2html - NO
- openmpi - NO
- pam_smb - NO
- pam_ssh - NO
- privoxy - NO
- procinfo - NO
- radiusclient -NO
- webalizer (or some sort of web analysis tool) - NO
- siga (or other info collector for support) - NO
- spamd - NO
- some webmail -defer
- varmon - NO
- cyrus (remove libsasl2-3 and switch to Dovecot for primary SASL) TO CHECK
- htdig - NO
- inn (or any nntp daemon like leafnode) - NO
- java toolkits
- javamail
- jdom
- JTOpen
- mx4j
- struts
- xalan/xerces
- mod-mono -DEFER
- mpich - NO
- mrtg - CRICKET in main - NO
- numactl - NO
- libpcre3 - IN MAIN (and on the server cd already....)
- pfmon - NO
- Cluster Admin - Redhat tools already in main
- postgrey - DEFER
- adaptec - TALK TO VENDOR
- frysk
Ganeti - http://code.google.com/p/ganeti/ - DEFER to virtualization
ibutils (OpenIB Mellanox InfiniBand Diagnostic Tools) -??? LOOK INTO IT
- 3ware - NO (non-free license)
Replace traditional sysklogd/syslogd with syslog-ng http://www.balabit.com/network-security/syslog-ng/ . (Desktop, even?) - DEFER to be seen with platform team
- htop (Better top, seriously.) good enough to have it in universe - NO
- rubygems (Near necessity for Rails.) Has better major-minor-point pinning support than apt-dpkg with respect to Ruby packages. - DEFER for ruby session
Comments
JeffSchroeder : syslog-ng is crippleware. Many of the features such as wire encryption and compression are only available in the commercial version. rsyslog is 100% compatible with the current sysklogd configuration file AND supports the commercial features of syslog-ng. Fedora chose rsyslog after an exhaustive review of the various choices. It has been the default syslog package since Fedora 8. See this page for an explanation of why it is better: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureRsyslog
JoshuaTimberman : Please replace syslogkd with rsyslog and don't consider syslog-ng. Debian upstream will replace syslogkd with rsyslog starting with Lenny: http://wiki.debian.org/Rsyslog, also http://blog.gerhards.net/2008/07/rsyslog-will-become-debians-default.html.