Comment 6 for bug 1977959

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Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks) wrote :

[Summary]
MIR review for libburn
MIR team ACK under the constraint to resolve the below listed
required TODOs and as much as possible having a look at the
recommended TODOs.
This does not need a security review
List of specific binary packages to NOT be promoted to main: cdrskin

Notes:
Required TODOs:
- Symbol tracking is not in place for libburn. Please add some tracking for the libburn symbols.
Recommended TODOs:
- There are quite a lot of warning during build (see section), I think some of them are valid and should be fixed. Mind looking at them? (Warnings are always asking for more warnings and could be overlooked)
- The package should get a team bug subscriber before being promoted

[Duplication]
libisoburn/libisofs/libburn will replace genisoimage usage in main.

[Dependencies]
OK:
- no other Dependencies to MIR due to this.
- libburn checked with `check-mir`
- no -dev/-debug/-doc packages that need exclusion
- No dependencies in main that are only superficially tested requiring more tests now.

[Embedded sources and static linking]
OK:
- no embedded source present
- no static linking
- does not have odd Built-Using entries

OK:
- not a go package, no extra constraints to consider in that regard

[Security]
OK:
- history of CVEs does not look concerning
- does not run a daemon as root
- does not use webkit1,2
- does not use lib*v8 directly
- does not parse data formats
- does not open a port/socket
- does not process arbitrary web content
- does not use centralized online accounts
- does not integrate arbitrary javascript into the desktop
- does not deal with system authentication (eg, pam), etc)
- does not deal with security attestation (secure boot, tpm, signatures)

[Common blockers]
OK:
- does not FTBFS currently
- does rely on libisoburn releng non-trivial test suite that runs as autopkgtest for both build test and package test.- no new python2 dependency

[Packaging red flags]
OK:
- Ubuntu does not carry a delta
- d/watch is present and looks ok
- Upstream update history is slow (but acceptable for this kind of project due to the history)
- Debian/Ubuntu update history is good
- the current release is packaged
- promoting this does not seem to cause issues for MOTUs that so far
- no massive Lintian warnings
- d/rules is rather clean
- It is not on the lto-disabled list

Problems:
- symbol tracking is not in place for libburn and only rely on shlibs. Any reason to not have a real symbol tracking?

[Upstream red flags]
OK:
- no incautious use of malloc/sprintf (as far as we can check it)
- no use of sudo, gksu, pkexec, or LD_LIBRARY_PATH (usage is OK inside
  tests).
- no use of user nobody
- use of setuid possible, but ok because in cdrskin which we don’t consider and not by default.
- no important open bugs (crashers, etc) in Debian or Ubuntu
- no dependency on webkit, qtwebkit, seed or libgoa-*
- UI desktop/translation: no translation present, but the niche usage can justify not having it.

Problems:
- There are a bunch of warnings during builds. Some of them sounds fixable and it’s probably the right time to look at them.