WakeOnLanMIR

Main Inclusion Report for wakeonlan

Requirements

  1. Availability: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/w/wakeonlan; all supported architectures

  2. Rationale:

    • Very small, useful program, particularly for servers and necessary for waking suspended/hibernated/powered-off systems

  3. Security:

    • CVE entries: None

    • Secunia history: None

    • Any binaries running as root or suid/sgid ? None Any daemons ? None

    • Network activity: does it open any port ? Sends UDP packets, can do so as non-root Does it handle incoming network data ? No

    • Does it directly (not through a library) process binary (video, audio, etc) or structured (PDF, etc) data ? No

    • Any source code review performed ? Yes, very simple perl script

  4. Quality assurance:

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

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

    • Debian bugs: One wishlist bug, for extracting MAC from IPv6 addresses

    • Maintenance in Debian is frenetic/vigorous/calm/dead ? calm

    • Upstream is frenetic/vigorous/calm/dead ? calm

    • Upstream bug tracker: Mail the maintainer, http://gsd.di.uminho.pt/jpo/software/wakeonlan/

    • Hardware: Does this package deal with hardware and if so how exotic is it ? Not applicable

    • Is there a test suite in the upstream source or packaging ? No Is it enabled to run in the build ? No

  5. UI standards:

    • User-visible strings are internationalized using standard gettext system ? No

    • Package with translatable strings builds a PO template during package build ? No

    • End-user applications ship a desktop file ? Not applicable

  6. Standards compliance:

  7. Dependencies:

    • perl, perl-modules, debhelper (>= 6), dpatch

    • Are these all in main ? Yes

  8. Maintenance:

  9. Background information:

    • The general purpose and context of the package should be clear from the package's debian/control file. If it isn't then please explain.
    • What do upstream call this software ? wakeonlan Has it had different names in the past ? No

  10. Internationalization:

    • Are graphical applications translatable? Not applicable

Reviewers

MIR bug: 327662

WakeOnLanMIR (last edited 2009-02-10 15:46:52 by cpe-66-68-12-58)