It's a bit hard to follow the issue but I have the impression quite a lot of work has been done on upstream ipmitool. It'd probably be worth revisiting.
Thanks -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu High Availability Team, which is subscribed to cluster-glue in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1576812 Title: [MIR] ipmitool Status in cluster-glue package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in ipmitool package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix Bug description: Availability: ipmitool is in universe in Precise, Trusty and Xenial. Rationale: ipmitool is a new Recommends of cluster-glue, which is in Main. Additionally, ipmitool is a reasonably common program for systems management, and it makes some sense for it to be in Main. Security: The security history for the ipmitool package is fairly quiet. Reviewing CVEs for ipmitool, I found only one relevant one: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-4339 which was fixed in Debian. ipmitool installs one binary to /usr/sbin: /usr/sbin/ipmievd and one corresponding service: /etc/init.d/ipmievd /lib/systemd/system/ipmievd.service ipmievd itself is a logging daemon that transfer logs from a BMC to syslog and seems like a low exposure (accounting for the afore- mentioned CVE). Quality assurance: Installation of ipmitool results in an immediately working package. Site-specific options for accessing a BMC may be necessary, but are documented in the man-page. No debconf questions are asked during installation. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ipmitool indicates no outstanding long-term bugs exist for ipmitool. Debian's bug tracker implies no significant bugs exist, excepting possibly related to whether ipmievd should start by default (due to dependencies on particular kernel modules). https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=ipmitool The upstream bug tracker https://sourceforge.net/p/ipmitool/bugs/?source=navbar mostly contains feature requests. ipmitool is well-maintained in Debian and Ubuntu. ipmitool does not ship a test suite; any test suite it shipped would also have strict hardware dependencies, I think. ipmitool uses a debian/watch file and uscan/uupdate function currently. I am not sure that the end-user application (ipmitool itself) has been internationalized yet. Nor does there appear to be a desktop file, but ipmitool would primarily be used on servers. Dependencies: All build and binary dependencies (including Recommends:) are satisfyable in main. Standards compliance: The package meets the FHS and Debian Policy standards. Maintenance: The Ubuntu Server team will maintain this package. Background information: The package descriptions correctly explain the general purpose and context of the package. == Original report == cluster-glue has added a recommends: against ipmitool, currently in universe. This looks to me like a reasonable thing to have in main, but needs to go through the MIR process. cluster-glue is owned by the server team. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cluster-glue/+bug/1576812/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-ha Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-ha More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
