** 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. - The tests are run in Ubuntu builds. + The tests are run in Ubuntu builds. The test result is ignored on + ppc64el because cmocka is broken there. I forwarded the patch fixing the tests upstream: http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2018-February/079074.html + https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/870612/ [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/[email protected]#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 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.
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