[MIR] s390-tools

[Dimitri John Ledkov]

[Availability]
To be available on s390x

[Rationale]
Boot and installer support tools on s390x

[Security]
Ships binaries in sbin.
No CVEs identified.

[Quality assurance]
Good.

[Dependencies]
depends on libpfm4 bug #1521969

[Standards compliance]
Yes

[Maintenance]
Foundations & xnox

[Background information]
zipl portions of the package are needed for the installer support. The rest of tools are useful to work with s390x specific hardware.

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)]

Some observations:
 - [Maintenance] The Debian packaging could certainly use some cleaning up / modernizing.
 - [Maintenance] It would be nice to see the patches being tagged, at least with a description.
 - [Maintenance] There are a few bugs open in Debian BTS, some with patches that could easily be applied (such as debian #711703)
 - [Security] Many binaries trigger a lintian warning: hardening-no-fortify-functions.

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)]

Seeing as the lintian warnings are about hardening, I think I'd like to see them fixed (or at least an analysis of why they can't be). I'd also like to know whether you plan to work with the Debian maintainers to fix other things (such as testing/applying patches already in the BTS which are relevant to Ubuntu).

I consider this main inclusion request blocked on getting further information about the two points above.

[Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox)]

Some observations:
 - [Maintenance] The Debian packaging could certainly use some cleaning up / modernizing.

done.

 - [Maintenance] It would be nice to see the patches being tagged, at least with a description.

partial, old patches not retagged... yet

 - [Maintenance] There are a few bugs open in Debian BTS, some with patches that could easily be applied (such as debian #711703)

closed, it's been fixed upstream

 - [Security] Many binaries trigger a lintian warning: hardening-no-fortify-functions.

fixed. Furthermore, binaries were built without optimisation, nor debug symbols.... all fixed.

[Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox)]

W.r.t. working together with debian. Collaboration happens via BTS and debian-s390 mailing list. Hendrik, dannf and myself are constantly in talks with phillip et.al.

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)]

MIR approved.