Review for Source Package: pemmican

[Summary]

This is a small utility that warns users of issues with power supply on 
Raspberry Pi 5 platforms.
It runs 3 utilities (pemmican-cli, pemmican-mon and pemmican-reset) as root and 
therefore 
I believe a sec review is due.


MIR team ACK under the constraint to resolve the below listed
required TODOs and as much as possible having a look at the
recommended TODOs.
This does need a security review, so I'll assign ubuntu-security
List of specific binary packages to be promoted to main: pemmican-common, 
pemmican-desktop, pemmican-doc, pemmican-server
Specific binary packages built, but NOT to be promoted to main: <None>

Notes:
Recommended TODOs:
1. The url you're link for more information 
(https://github.com/waveform80/pemmican/blob/main/pemmican/const.py#L20) 
returns 404, you may want to change it.

- The package should get a team bug subscriber before being promoted

[Rationale, Duplication and Ownership]
There is no other package in main providing the same functionality.
A team is committed to own long term maintenance of this package (foundations).
The rationale given in the report seems valid and useful for Ubuntu

[Dependencies]
OK:
- no other Dependencies to MIR due to this
- no -dev/-debug/-doc packages that need exclusion
- No dependencies in main that are only superficially tested requiring
  more tests now.

Problems: None

[Embedded sources and static linking]
OK:
- no embedded source present
- no static linking
- does not have unexpected Built-Using entries
- not a go package, no extra constraints to consider in that regard
- not a rust package, no extra constraints to consider in that regard
- Does not include vendored code

Problems: None

[Security]
OK:
- history of CVEs does not look concerning
- does not use webkit1,2
- does not use lib*v8 directly
- does not parse data formats (files [images, video, audio,
  xml, json, asn.1], network packets, structures, ...) from
  an untrusted source.
- does not expose any external endpoint (port/socket/... or similar)
- does not process arbitrary web content
- does not use centralized online accounts
- does not integrate arbitrary javascript into the desktop
- does not deal with system authentication (eg, pam), etc)
- does not deal with security attestation (secure boot, tpm, signatures)
- does not deal with cryptography (en-/decryption, certificates,
  signing, ...)

Problems:
- does run a daemon as root

[Common blockers]
OK:
- does not FTBFS currently
- does have a test suite that runs at build time
  - test suite fails will fail the build upon error.
- does have a non-trivial test suite that runs as autopkgtest
- no new python2 dependency
- Python package, but using dh_python

Problems: None

[Packaging red flags]
OK:
- Ubuntu does carry a delta, but it is reasonable and maintenance under
  control
- symbols tracking not applicable for this kind of code.
- debian/watch is present and looks ok (if needed, e.g. non-native)
- Upstream update history is good
- Debian/Ubuntu update history is good
- the current release is packaged
- promoting this does not seem to cause issues for MOTUs that so far
  maintained the package
- no massive Lintian warnings
- debian/rules is rather clean
- It is not on the lto-disabled list

Problems: None

[Upstream red flags]
OK:
- no Errors/warnings during the build
- no incautious use of malloc/sprintf (the language has no direct MM)
- no use of sudo, gksu, pkexec, or LD_LIBRARY_PATH (usage is OK inside
  tests)
- no use of user nobody
- no use of setuid / setgid
- no important open bugs (crashers, etc) in Debian or Ubuntu
- no dependency on webkit, qtwebkit, seed or libgoa-*
- not part of the UI for extra checks
- translation present

Problems: None


** Changed in: pemmican (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Confirmed

** Changed in: pemmican (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: Ioanna Alifieraki (joalif) => (unassigned)

** Changed in: pemmican (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Ubuntu Security Team (ubuntu-security)

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