[Bug 1912371] Re: [MIR] flashrom

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

[Adding flashrom mailing list to CC. Context: The Ubuntu bug is about
moving flashrom from universe to main.
See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/flashrom/+bug/1912371/ for
details.]

If anyone is interested, I can dig up my test scripts which I used to
test flashrom, but I do not have any autopkgtest experience. Someone(TM)
would have to convert that to autopkgtest format, or we can simply ship
selftest scripts to be called from autopkgtest.
The amount of testing depends on how much test coverage you want. We can
do self-tests with internally emulated hardware or externally emulated
hardware or real hardware (the last variant is probably not desirable in
a build system).
Besides that, flashrom always performs a few self-tests (mostly internal
data structure consistency) during startup. The tests have repeatedly
caught bugs before a merge when people added new features, but forgot to
update all relevant data structures.

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Title:
  [MIR] flashrom

Status in flashrom package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  [Summary]
  Further review will be needed. The Package does not have a test suite that runs as autopkgtest.

  [Availability]
  Currently in universe.

  [Duplication]
  There is no other package in main providing the same functionality.

  [Rationale]
  fwupd depends on libflashrom1 for its flashrom plugin, something that's required to update Coreboot firmware.

  [Security]
  No CVE's, but due to the nature of the package security should review.

  [Quality Assurance]
  Package builds and runs easily

  [Dependencies]
  N/A

  [Standards Compliance]
  Complies with FHS, though the organization of files in the source package could be organized better.

  [Common blockers]
  flashrom does NOT have a test suite that runs at build time.
  flashrom does NOT have a test suite that runs as autopkgtest.

  [Maintenance]
  Actively maintained - https://github.com/flashrom/flashrom
  Packaging - https://salsa.debian.org/myczko-guest/flashrom.git

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