Ubuntu
watchdog package

[MIR] watchdog

Bug #1572541 reported by Oliver Grawert
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watchdog (Ubuntu)
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Ubuntu ubuntu-16.04

Bug Description

[MIR] the Snappy Ubuntu Core images pre-install the watchdog package. With snappy becoming an official Ubuntu variant this package should be moved to main.

Oliver Grawert (ogra)
Changed in watchdog (Ubuntu):
milestone: none → ubuntu-16.04
importance: Undecided → High
Revision history for this message
Michael Terry (mterry) wrote :

This is poor timing to approve something for 16.04.

- Watchdog in ubuntu has several potentially bad bugs. Some of which would be solved by a sync from Debian. But bug 1448924 and bug 1559468 at least have patches (they overlap each other actually). Bug 1535854 also seems important, as do CPU bugs bug 1349411 and bug 1010855. Not all of these are blockers for main, but they don't instill confidence in the package. Is snappy hitting these bugs?

- Needs a team bug subscriber

- Ancient packaging (compat level 5!) but nothing we should do about that from Ubuntu side. Just means that new dh modules don't get run automatically. Slightly more brittle packaging as a result.

- It suffers from lintian error init.d-script-depends-on-all-virtual-facility, but I guess that's OK since this is systemd-based these days.

- Security should look at this, assigning

Changed in watchdog (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Ubuntu Security Team (ubuntu-security)
status: New → Incomplete
Michael Terry (mterry)
summary: - [MIR] watchdog is preinstalled on snappy images and should be moved to
- main
+ [MIR] watchdog
Tyler Hicks (tyhicks)
Changed in watchdog (Ubuntu):
assignee: Ubuntu Security Team (ubuntu-security) → Seth Arnold (seth-arnold)
Revision history for this message
Seth Arnold (seth-arnold) wrote :

Please consider using systemd's watchdog support instead of this package. It's already in main.

This codebase is fairly baroque, parts feel muddled from unclear goals, and parts of it feel downright misguided.

While this package probably doesn't represent much security boundary, I have to think that using the systemd services instead would be more pleasant.

See "RuntimeWatchdogSec=, ShutdownWatchdogSec=" in systemd-system.conf(5) for details on systemd's hardware watchdogs.

If this doesn't work, please describe why, and we may be able to come to an understanding.

Thanks

Changed in watchdog (Ubuntu):
assignee: Seth Arnold (seth-arnold) → nobody
Revision history for this message
Oliver Grawert (ogra) wrote :

package dropped in favour of systemd watchdog support ...

Changed in watchdog (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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