** Summary changed:
- [MIR] mdevctl
+ [MIR] mdevctl, jq, libonig
** Also affects: jq (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Also affects: libonig (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Changed in: libonig (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Incomplete
** Changed in: jq (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Incomplete
** Description changed:
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).
jq had no past MIR afaik, libonig was denied (bug 675757) but the old
issues resolved.
This decision can change and then the MIR is prepared.
Until then this is incomplete.
+ ---
- ---
+ MDEVCTL
[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
+
+ ---
+
+ TBD JQ/LIBONIG
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