[MIR] iotop
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| iotop (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
Undecided
|
Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre | ||
Bug Description
[Availability]
The package is currently in universe with no deltas with Debian.
[Rationale]
The Ubuntu Server team wishes to seed the package in ubuntu-server image.
iotop [1] is a Python program with a UI similar to the "top" utility. The program watches input-output (I/O) usage information output by the Linux kernel and displays a table of current I/O usage by processes on the system. It is used in debugging a system or understanding how a particular process is getting hung up in I/O related tasks versus CPU or memory bound issues.
[1] http://
[Security]
There are no previous or active CVEs against the package.
The program is required to be run as root due to CVE-2011-2494 [2] causing I/O statistics from the taskstats kernel subsystem to be accessible only to root users. The result is the primary binary lives in /usr/sbin
[2] https:/
[Quality assurance]
There is no configuration required and no debconf questions asked by the package. The package currently is built and ran across all release architectures.
The package does have a debian/watch file [3].
There are a 8 bugs in the Ubuntu bug tracker [4] and 3 in the Debian bug tacker [5]. None of which are related to data corruption, system crashing, or other catastrophic issues.
[3] https:/
[4] https:/
[5] https:/
[Dependencies]
Run time dependency python3 is satisfied in main.
Build dependencies debhelper, dh-python,and python3 are also in main.
[Standards compliance]
The package does not report any lintian issues.
[Maintenance]
We can continue to keep this package synced directly with Debian. It is not a volatile package with many changes coming.
[Background information]
The general purpose and context of the package is explained in the package's debian/control file. This package has not had a different name in the past.
| Michael Terry (mterry) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in iotop (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Incomplete |
| description: | updated |
| Joshua Powers (powersj) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in iotop (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | Incomplete → New |
| Changed in iotop (Ubuntu): | |
| assignee: | nobody → Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox) |
| Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox) wrote | #3 |
| Changed in iotop (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Incomplete |
| Changed in iotop (Ubuntu): | |
| milestone: | none → ubuntu-17.01 |
| Joshua Powers (powersj) wrote | #4 |
| Changed in iotop (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | Incomplete → New |
| Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox) wrote | #5 |
| Changed in iotop (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Fix Committed |
| Changed in iotop (Ubuntu): | |
| milestone: | ubuntu-17.01 → ubuntu-17.02 |
| Adam Conrad (adconrad) wrote | #6 |
| Changed in iotop (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
Same question as the htop MIR. You're trying to seed this onto the ubuntu-server image?