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Hi, per [1] requesting a MIR check for rdma-core.

1. Availability: The Package is in universe 15-3 at the moment, see [2]
   

2. Rationale: The demand is implicit as this is a transition from many source 
packes that made 
   libibverbs, mlx4, mlx5, ... into one single source.
   That way upstream can release versions together and ensure better 
compatibility among them.
   Due to that the "demand" is implicit as already many packages depend on e..g 
libibverbs1 from 
   the old sources.

3. Security: The code was checked before when it was split, so it should be ok.
   OTOH it can't be much more critical than this as those libs are used in 
networking (exposure) 
   and to control rdma (high priv memory access)
   Of course merging code means this could now include code that before was not 
part of main.

4. Quality assurance: The code initially is equivalent to what we had before.
   So while I personally often wonder about the code quality there a lot of it 
was due to these 
   split releases and incompatibilities between the versions. That is now gone 
and should not be 
   worse than what we had before.

5. UI standards: only lib, no real UI.
   A few console tools - again - should be no worse than they were before.

6. Dependencies: I didn't had time to check as I file this due to a ping by 
Doko for now.
   Due to the source of many packages being combined to one it might have more 
dependencies.
   We should check that only those gets into main what was in main before e.g. 
libibverbs - we do 
   not want any random rdma-core-helper tool in main as well.
   For example "ibacm" is not in main and I see no reason it would get into it 
- but since we do 
   MIRs on source packages ...
   
7. Standards compliance: just passed Debian New queue, should be good in that 
regard.

8. Maintenance: rdma has been a complex thing to maintain all the time, the 
merge of these should 
   have made it slightly better than it already was for the main inclusion of 
the sublibs before.

9. Background information: being a replacement it is kind of a special case.
   Essentially we are following a Debian transition here.
   See [3] for more details.

[1]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MainInclusionProcess
[2]: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rdma-core/15-3
[3]: https://github.com/linux-rdma/rdma-core

** Affects: rdma-core (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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  [MIR] 18.04 rdma-core as replacement for older ibverbs code

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