Ubuntu
modemmanager package

[MIR] modemmanager

Bug #410259 reported by Tony Espy on 2009-08-07

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	modemmanager (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Undecided	Alexander Sack

Bug Description

1. Availability:

http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/m/modemmanager/

modemmanager is available for all supported architectures.

2. Rationale:

modemmanager is a runtime 'Recommends:' dependency of network-manager 0.8.
It's purpose is to provide an extensible 3G framework used by network-manager.

3. Security:

* The code was factored out of network-manager 0.7 in order to create a
   separate extensible framework for handling modems.
* There are no current CVE entries for modemmanager.
* There are no search results retunred by Secunia for modemmanager.
* modemmanager provides a system daemon binary, modem-manager, which runs as root.
* modemmanager opens one or more serial/modem ports in order to configure the modem. It
   also processes control status information from the modem. It doesn't handle any incoming
   network data.
* modemmanager doesn't process any binary (video, audio, etc ) data.
* Any source code review performed? No, but as mentioned above, this
   code was factored out of network-manager 0.7.

4. Quality assurance:

* In what situations does the package not work out of the box
without configuration? NONE

* Does the package ask any debconf questions higher than priority 'medium'? NO

* Debian bugs: (mention any that are particularly relevant, and any showstoppers) NONE

* Maintenance in Debian is frenetic/vigorous/calm/dead ? The Ubuntu Network Manager
team will maintain it in Debian.
* Upstream is frenetic/vigorous/calm/dead? Upstream development is vigorous, with
ongoing development work.

* Upstream bug tracker: (mention any particularly relevant or critical)

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/browse.cgi?product=NetworkManager

* Hardware: Does this package deal with hardware and if so how exotic is it ?
Yes, please see above description.

* Is there a test suite in the upstream source or packaging ? Is it enabled to
run in the build ? NO

5. UI standards:

Not applicable, modemmanager is a system-daemon with no user-visible strings UI.

6. Standards compliance:

* FHS, Debian Policy compliance ? YES
* Packaging system (debhelper/cdbs/dbs) ? debhelper
* Patch system ? quilt
* Any packaging oddities ? NO

7. Dependencies:

* Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 5.0.0), automake, cdbs, quilt, libtool,
libdbus-glib-1-dev (>= 0.75), libgudev-1.0-dev
* Runtime: none
* Are these all in main ? YES

8. Maintenance:

* How much maintenance is this package likely to need ?
   This package will need ongoing maintenance to add support for
   new hardware, and fix bugs as appropriate.
* Who is responsible for monitoring the quality of this
   package and fixing its bugs ?
   Dedicated Canonical Network Manager team.
   * Are they Ubuntu or Debian developers ? Debian & Ubuntu developers.
* Who is the package bug contact in Ubuntu? Launchpad Network Manager team.

9. Background information:

    * The general purpose and context of the package should be clear from the
      package's debian/control file. If it isn't then please explain.
      The control file explanation is sufficient.
    * What do upstream call this software ? modemmanager
    * Has it had different names in the past ? NO

10. Internationalization:

N/A - see "5. UI standards"