[MIR] vblade-persist

[Chuck Short]

Rationale: Dependency for nova apart of the server-o-cobbler specification in order to get nova, glance, and swift into main.
Security: No known security history.
Quality Assurance: Package works out of the box with no prompting. There is no major bugs in Ubuntu and the is no major bugs in Debian.
Standards Compliance: FHS and Debian Policy compliant.
Maintenance: Simple package that the Ubuntu Server Team will take care of.
Dependencies: All are in main except for runit which will have a MIR done shortly.

[Michael Terry (mterry)]

Approved from a packaging/maintainability perspective. Though it would be nice to see a bug subscriber.

Assigning to ubuntu-security for a quick pass. I'm not familiar with this protocol, and this package is creating /dev symlinks, so I want to be sure there aren't any concerns.

[Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand)]

Well coded and coded defensively with good input validation. verify_interface() could be better in the face of no ip and no ifconfig, but we always have those, so no biggie. Would be nice if it used 'set -e' in /usr/sbin/vblade-persist, but I don't see anything that is wrong.

Feel free to promote, but note the dependency on runit which is still in universe (I don't see a bug for it either).

[Michael Terry (mterry)]

Marking Fix Committed then, but you should file a MIR for runit too.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

vblade-persist depends on runit, which is not appropriate to include in main and will not be supported by the Foundations team. If the functionality of this package is required in main, it should be ported to systemd.

[Michael Terry (mterry)]

Haha, indeed. I hadn't even looked at what runit was yet. Runit-assumptions do unfortunately seem to be embedded into how this package works.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

I think this MIR was originally filed for a previous iteration of the package, and the submitter (Chuck) is no longer responsible for the state of this package. Assigning to Robie (the uploader of the version (re?)introducing the recommends, and subscribing the ubuntu server team.

[Christian Ehrhardt  (paelzer)]

Thanks Steve for making us aware of that old MIR.

In fact vblade is on its way to be demoted and going out of main.
Yes it is still in main, but the upload of 22-1ubuntu1 was not only to merge but also to prepare it to become a sync package later on and with that change it should be demoted too.

That said I think we can set the vblade portion of this bug to "Won't Fix"