** Description changed:
- TBD
+ Note:
+ This is a preparation MIR only
+ Right now we will keep it as a suggest and in universe.
+
+ The reason isn't mdevctl (which is fine) but that we'd also need
+ `src:jq` and for that `src:libonig` whcih currently (at least the server team)
+ does not want to own (just for this use case).
+
+ This decision can change and then the MIR is prepared.
+ Until then this is incomplete.
+
+ ---
+
+ [Availability]
+ The package is in the Ubuntu universe, and must build for all architectures.
+ Just one binary package `mdevctl`
+
+ [Rationale]
+ This has two reasons:
+ 1. it is a very nice tool to handle meidiated devices in general.
+ It more and more becomes the one tool people refer to (other than fully
+ manual working through sysfs)
+ 2. libvirt with coming version 6.5 starts to use it and it will become a
+ recommends.
+ https://www.libvirt.org/news.html
+
https://salsa.debian.org/libvirt-team/libvirt/-/merge_requests/55/diffs?commit_id=b8a07b4b19e3ba03b2d36b6def4c5e4527ec2f11
+
+ [Security]
+
+ No open bugs or CVEs (nor any in the past).
+
+ [Quality assurance]
+
+ Packaging wise it seems sage it doesn't ask debconf questions, has no
+ long-term outstanding bugs and upstream has a bug tracker.
+
+ OTOH it is just a pumped up shell script these days, there is no upstream
+ testsuite or anything like it.
+
+ I have personally used it to manage vGPUs of nvidia and intel and it worked
+ for both - due to the very HW specific nature of the tools use case
+ there can't be autopkgtests or other easy tests.
+
+ Package is maintained in Debian and Ubuntu by the server team.
+ No outstanding bugs:
+ https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/mdevctl
+
+ The HW the package deals with is not really exotic - while everyone wants
+ to use it (pro users) for nvidia - it does work with almost any i915 laptop
+ GPU of the last decade. Only you need to reboot/reconfig your laptop which
makes
+ it a bit harder.
+
+ Lintian is happy with the package.
+
+ No obsolete or demoted dependencies.
+
+ [UI standards]
+
+ No end user UI
+ Just a few CLI bits used by admins and parsable output used by tools.
+
+ [Dependencies]
+
+ Fine except for `jq` which also need `libonig`
+
+ [Standards compliance]
+
+ The package meets the FHS and Debian Policy standards.
+
+ [Maintenance]
+
+ The Server team will subscribe for the package for maintenance
** Changed in: mdevctl (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Incomplete
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