= Main Inclusion Report for partman-iscsi =

== Requirements ==

 0. ''Availability:'' [[http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/p/partman-iscsi]]; available for all supported architectures (in binary NEW at time of writing)
 0. ''Rationale:''
  * Implements partitioning changes designed in UbuntuSpec:foundations-karmic-iscsi-installer-support.
  * Expected to be used in server/netboot installations (i.e. on the server CD, and Priority: standard).
 0. ''Security:''
  * New package, so no CVE/Secunia history.
  * Runs as root as part of the installer.
  * Talks to iSCSI portals using iscsiadm.
  * No direct processing of binary data.
  * Source code review performed by virtue of the fact that I (ColinWatson) wrote this package :-)
 0. ''Quality assurance:''
  * Adds a "Configure iSCSI" item to the partitioning menu when installed; if that item is selected then it asks several critical-priority debconf questions. However, this package does not add any questions to the default installation path.
  * Not (yet?) in Debian.
  * No independent upstream existence.
  * In production this package would normally cooperate with a genuine hardware iSCSI server, although it's possible to emulate that using the iscsitarget package (and that's what I used to write this).
  * No test suite.
 0. ''UI standards:''
  * User-visible strings are internationalised using po-debconf, following standard practice in the installer.
 0. ''Standards compliance:'' 
  * Meets usual standards for installer package layout, although these are not directly beholden to the FHS or Debian Policy.
  * Native debhelper 7 packaging.
 0. ''Dependencies:''
  * Only non-trivial dependency is open-iscsi-udeb, already in main.
 0. ''Maintenance:''
  * Some ongoing development is expected to polish up the UI; for example, we still need to add support for authenticated targets. Since this is a Karmic feature goal, effort will be available for this. Once feature development settles down it should need only about as much maintenance as the rest of partman.
  * The submitter of this report (ColinWatson) is responsible for fixing bugs, and the ubuntu-installer team (which includes me) is the package bug contact.

== Reviewers ==

MIR bug: [[https://launchpad.net/bugs/BUGNUMBER]]

ColinWatson