[Bug 2015538] Re: [MIR] dbus-broker

[Sebastien Bacher]

Please do, we would still like to do the switch if possible

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Title:
  [MIR] dbus-broker

Status in dbus-broker package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  [Availability]
  The package dbus-broker is already in Ubuntu universe.
  The package dbus-broker build for the architectures it is designed to work on.
  It currently builds and works for architetcures: amd64, arm64, armhf, i386, ppc64el, riscv64, s390x
  Link to package https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dbus-broker

  [Rationale]
  - The package dbus-broker is required in Ubuntu main to replace dbus-daemon.
  - The package dbus-broker will generally from server to desktop.
  - Package dbus-broker covers the same use case as dbus-daemon but is a better alternative for the reason described in https://dvdhrm.github.io/rethinking-the-dbus-message-bus/. Other distributions are using it for years, Fedora for example, https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/DbusBrokerAsTheDefaultDbusImplementation
  - There is no other/better way to solve this that is already in main or
    should go universe->main instead of this.

  - The package dbus-broker is required in Ubuntu main no later than
  august due to FF, ideally we would like land it earlier in the cycle

  [Security]
  - Had 2 security issues in the past
  1.
  https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-31212
  https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-31212
  https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-31212

  2.
  https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-31213
  https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-31213
  https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-31212

  Those reports seem to have been fixed in timelined fashion upstream.
  The issues are resolved in Ubuntu in series > Kinetic

  - no `suid` or `sgid` binaries
  - no executables in `/sbin` and `/usr/sbin`
  - Package does install services, timers or recurring jobs
  /lib/systemd/system/dbus-broker.service
  /usr/lib/systemd/user/dbus-broker.service

    The system unit use the following systemd security features
  OOMScoreAdjust=-900
  LimitNOFILE=16384
  ProtectSystem=full
  PrivateTmp=true
  PrivateDevices=true

  - Packages does not open privileged ports (ports < 1024)
  - Packages does not contain extensions to security-sensitive software

  [Quality assurance - function/usage]
  - The package works well right after install

  [Quality assurance - maintenance]
  - The package does not deal with exotic hardware we cannot support

  [Quality assurance - testing]
  - The package runs a test suite on build time, if it fails
    it makes the build fail

  https://launchpadlibrarian.net/650445725/buildlog_ubuntu-lunar-
  amd64.dbus-broker_33-1_BUILDING.txt.gz

  Ok:                 46
  Expected Fail:      0
  Fail:               0
  Unexpected Pass:    0
  Skipped:            0
  Timeout:            0

  - The package runs an autopkgtest, and is currently passing on
    amd64, arm64, armhf, i386, ppc64el, riscv64, s390x
  https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/packages/dbus-broker

  - The package does have not failing autopkgtests right now
  - The autopkgtest is the running the upstream testsuite so is not trivial

  [Quality assurance - packaging]
  - debian/watch is present and works

  - debian/control defines a correct Maintainer since it's in sync from
  Debian

  - The package has no lintian warnings
  # lintian --pedantic
  #

  - Please link to a recent build log of the package
  https://launchpadlibrarian.net/650445725/buildlog_ubuntu-lunar-amd64.dbus-broker_33-1_BUILDING.txt.gz

    `lintian --pedantic` as an extra post to this bug.

  - Lintian overrides are present
  # dbus-broker only supports systemd
  dbus-broker: maintainer-script-calls-systemctl
  dbus-broker: package-supports-alternative-init-but-no-init.d-script [lib/systemd/system/dbus-broker.service]
  # need to override dh_installsystemd
  dbus-broker: maintainer-script-empty [prerm]
  dbus-broker: maintainer-script-ignores-errors [prerm]
  # matches dbus-daemon package, activated by socket
  dbus-broker: systemd-service-file-missing-install-key [lib/systemd/system/dbus-broker.service]

  Those have to do with the fact that package is set to work only with systemd, that's not an issue in Ubuntu since we don't support alternative init systems anyway
  Also the service shouldn't be stopped on package removal to avoid seeing the user session close
  https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=980541

  - This package does not rely on obsolete or about to be demoted packages.
  - This package has no python2 or GTK2 dependencies

  - The package will be installed by default, but does not ask debconf
  questions

  - Packaging and build is easy, https://salsa.debian.org/utopia-
  team/dbus-broker/-/blob/debian/sid/debian/rules

  [UI standards]
  - Application is not end-user facing (does not need translation)

  [Dependencies]
  - No further depends or recommends dependencies that are not yet in main

  [Standards compliance]
  - This package correctly follows FHS and Debian Policy

  [Maintenance/Owner]
  - Owning Teams will be foundations and desktop
  - desktop-packages is already subscribed to the package, we will get foundations added

  - This does not use static builds
  - This does not use vendored code
  - This package is not rust based

  - The package successfully built during the most recent test rebuild

  [Background information]
  The Package description explains the package well
  Upstream Name is dbus-broker
  Link to upstream project https://github.com/bus1/dbus-broker

  The apparmor integration patch in review upstream on
  https://github.com/bus1/dbus-broker/pull/286 has got a +1 from our
  security team, we will include the change either by distro patching or
  through a newer upstream version since that's required for our
  confinement story, especially in snaps.

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