** Description changed: [Availability] Currently in universe [Rationale] mtd-utils is a new dependency of flash-kernel (main) [Security] There are no outstanding nor historical security issues. [Quality Assurance] There are a low number of outstanding bugs against the package and is well maintained. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mtd-utils (1) https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/mtd-utils (10) There is one important bug in Debian but it does not affect Ubuntu since Ubuntu supports only the Linux kernel: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=745187 mtd-utils: Please use arch:linux-any The outstanding bugs don't affect flash-kernel's mtd-utils usage. The package does deal with exotic hardware, too, if rare SoC variants count as such. - ! Test suite is not enabled yet, it is in progress. + The tests are run in Ubuntu builds. + + I forwarded the patch fixing the tests upstream: + http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2018-February/079074.html [Dependencies] All in main (libc6 (>= 2.14), liblzo2-2, libuuid1 (>= 2.16), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4)) [Standards Compliance] Debhelper compat version is 9. Generally FHS compliant, with the exception explained here: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=589228 mtd-utils: possible FHS violation, as mkfs.jffs2 and mkfs.ubifs are not in /sbin There are minor Debian Policy compliance issues reported by Lintian: https://lintian.debian.org/maintainer/riku.voi...@linaro.org.html#mtd-utils It lists many missing man pages and priority-extra-is-replaced-by-priority-optional [Maintenance] - Packaging is minimal, most likely it will be maintained in syncs from Debian. + Packaging is minimal, most likely it will be maintained in syncs from + Debian after the next upstream release. + The package will be maintained by the Foundations Team. [Background] Description: Memory Technology Device Utilities - Utilities for manipulating memory technology devices, such as flash - memory, Disk-On-Chip, or ROM. Includes mkfs.jffs2, a tool to create - JFFS2 (journaling flash file system) filesystems. + Utilities for manipulating memory technology devices, such as flash + memory, Disk-On-Chip, or ROM. Includes mkfs.jffs2, a tool to create + JFFS2 (journaling flash file system) filesystems.
** Summary changed: - [MIR] mtd-utils (WIP) + [MIR] mtd-utils -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1746126 Title: [MIR] mtd-utils To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mtd-utils/+bug/1746126/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
