[MIR] s390-netdevice

[Dimitri John Ledkov]

[Availability]
To be available on s390x

[Rationale]
d-i component binary to discover and activate network hardware

[Security]
single postinst compiled binary

[Quality assurance]
Good.

Well, it's a C binary compiled into `postinst` which might be confusing, as otherwise the package is "empty".

[Dependencies]
s390-sysconfig-writer bug #1522002

[Standards compliance]
Yes... well not sure about binary postinst.

[Maintenance]
Foundations & xnox

[Background information]
d-i component binary to discover and activate network hardware for s390x

[Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks)]

"[Standards compliance]
Yes... well not sure about binary postinst."
-> Yeah, I'm not fan either about that solution. Can't we achieve this more elegantly via a dpkg trigger? That way, we wouldn't fail the whole transition in case we can't compile the module.

Also, I think the package should dep on gcc or any involved compiler?

Finally, there is no obvious copyright of the file not in debian/ directory. We need to either:
- have one GPL2 header into that file (and then, we have an obvious "upstream" copyright
- ship a COPYING or LICENSE file.

[Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks)]

For the record: despite no message on this bug report, I saw that one is already promoted to main.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for s390-netdevice (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

still doesn't have a copyright file. yeah for pre-promotions

[Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox)]

"via a dpkg trigger" -> this is a udeb only package, so no triggers ;-) no transitions, no upgrades ever.

i will open a bug in debian about lack of copyright file. But i fear the identified problem is not unique to this udeb, but to other d-i upstream components as well.

[Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox)]

I cannot create a license/copying file, as the copyright holder / upstream should do that.

Filed a Debian bug report, about this, linked. If and when it is fixed it will land in Ubuntu via merge. I do not believe this is in fact critical to track, apart from the BTS bug. Thus this is now complete.

[Adam Conrad (adconrad)]

1) It's a d-i component, a binary postinst is not only reasonably, but entirely common.
2) It's a Debian native package, debian/copyright is the only copyright required.