** 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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