At the time Colin and I discussed getting thunderbolt-tools into Debian and then eventually into Ubuntu (& of course main via this MIR) bolt's GUI wasn't available yet and bolt was still under some pretty heavy development.
>From a client (general purpose laptop or desktop) system perspective it's better to offer something with a GUI, but there are other features that thunderbolt-tools offers that aren't in bolt as well. For example thunderbolt-tools provides some udev rules to assist with starting up thunderbolt networking in the proper situations and recently adopted some features for controlling what happens with the boot time ACL. They are both great solutions that will continue to adopt different features at a different rate. My opinion is that both should be offered in main, but bolt and bolt GUI should probably be the one that gets seeded for Ubuntu desktop. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to thunderbolt-tools in Ubuntu. Matching subscriptions: Kernel Packages https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1748157 Title: [MIR] thunderbolt-tools Status in thunderbolt-tools package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: == Overview == Intel Thunderbolt userspace components provides components for using Intel Thunderbolt controllers with security level features. Thunderbolt™ technology is a transformational high-speed, dual protocol I/O that provides unmatched performance with up to 40Gbps bi- directional transfer speeds. It provides flexibility and simplicity by supporting both data (PCIe, USB3.1) and video (DisplayPort) on a single cable connection that can daisy-chain up to six devices. [ See https://github.com/intel/thunderbolt-software-user-space ] == Answers to UbuntuMainInclusionRequirements == = Requirements = 1. Availability Package is in universe: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbolt-tools 2. Rationale Package a device enabler for users with Thunderbolt technology 3. Security: No security issues exposed so far. However, the tools have only been in Ubuntu since 2017-12-09, so this currently is less than the 90 days threshold. 4. Quality assurance: * Manual is provided * No debconf questions higher than medium * No major outstanding bugs. I'm also helping Intel fix issues that I'm finding with static analysis tools such as scan-build, cppcheck and CoverityScan Bugs outstanding: #883857 please backport for stretch-backports #882525 thunderbolt-tools: FTBFS on kFreeBSD: _ZN5boost6system15system_categoryEv undefined - I can fix this, but it makes no sense to run on kFreeBSD * Exotic Hardware: Only Thunderbolt supported H/W is required, this is an industry standard and the support for the tools are in the 4.13+ kernels * No Test Suite shipped with the package * Does not rely on obsolete or demoted packages 5. UI standards: * This is a CLI tool. Tool has normal CLI style short help and man pages * No desktop file required as it is a CLI tool. 6. Binary Dependencies: libboost-dev (main) libboost-filesystem-dev (main) libboost-program-options-dev (main) udev (main) 7. Standards compliance: lintian clean and meets the FHS + Debian Policy standards to the best of my knowledge 8. Maintenance * Package owning team: The Ubuntu Kernel Team * Debian package maintained by Colin Ian King (myself from the Kernel Team) 9. Background Information The user-space components implement device approval support: a. Easier interaction with the kernel module for approving connected devices. b. ACL for auto-approving devices white-listed by the user. Tools provided by this package: tbtacl - triggered by udev (see the udev rules in tbtacl.rules). It auto-approves devices that are found in ACL. tbtadm - user-facing CLI tool. It provides operations for device approval, handling the ACL and more. The user-space components operate in coordination with the upstream Thunderbolt kernel driver (found in v4.13) to provide the Thunderbolt functionalities. These components are NOT compatible with the old out-of-tree Thunderbolt kernel module. = Security checks = http://cve.mitre.org/cve/cve.html: Search in the National Vulnerability Database using the package as a keyword * No CVEs found http://secunia.com/advisories/search/: search for the package as a keyword * No security advisories found Ubuntu CVE Tracker http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/main.html * No http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/universe.html * No http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/partner.html * No Check for security relevant binaries. If any are present, this requires a more in-depth security review. Executables which have the suid or sgid bit set. * Not applicable Executables in /sbin, /usr/sbin. * None in these paths Packages which install daemons (/etc/init.d/*) * No Packages which open privileged ports (ports < 1024). * No Add-ons and plugins to security-sensitive software (filters, scanners, UI skins, etc) * This does exec tbtacl from udev with new udev rules, so this needs security checking To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbolt-tools/+bug/1748157/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
