Phoronix published a warning about the transition of 12 packages to an abandoned state, left without maintainers after staff reductions at Intel and the discontinuation of the Clear Linux project. No source links are provided in the article, but it appears that the information is derived from the August report of the Debian QA Group without clarifying the current state.
In the current list of abandoned packages (orphaned), only one of the marked packages is mentioned — psst. The others are flagged as candidates for being left unmaintained and are included in the list of packages for which maintainers are being sought, as the current maintainer wishes to transfer the packages to other hands.
For 4 packages, new maintainers were found as early as the beginning of September. Two packages, for which maintainers are being sought, have build issues and are placed in the candidate list for removal from the Debian Testing repository. In addition to the packages with issues, dependent packages are also included in the candidate list for removal.
Current status of support for packages abandoned after the staff layoffs from Intel:
- accel-config (components for configuring Intel DSA (Data Streaming Accelerators)) — a new maintainer was found for the package on September 3.
- qatlib (a library for accelerating encryption, authentication, and compression operations using Intel QuickAssist technology) — on August 18, Hector Cao from Canonical expressed readiness to maintain the package, who is the maintainer of this package in Ubuntu.
- qatzip (a library for working with ZIP archives, using acceleration based on Intel QuickAssist technology) — on September 8, Hector Cao from Canonical expressed readiness to maintain the package, who is the maintainer of this package in Ubuntu.
- qatengine (components for supporting Intel QuickAssist technology in OpenSSL) — on September 8, Hector Cao from Canonical expressed readiness to maintain the package, who is the maintainer of this package in Ubuntu. However, the package is scheduled for removal from Debian Testing on October 26 due to dependencies on the intel-ipsec-mb and ipp-crypto packages, which have build and maintenance issues.
- ipp-crypto (a library with cryptographic primitives accelerated by Intel AVX-512 instructions) — no new maintainer found yet. The package is scheduled for removal from Debian Testing on October 29 due to an unresolved build issue.
- intel-ipsec-mb (implementation of cryptographic functions for IPSec optimized using Intel MBC (Multi-Buffer Crypto) technology) — no new maintainer found yet. The package is scheduled for removal from Debian Testing on October 26 due to an unresolved build issue. The intel-ipsec-mb package is used as a dependency by 68 other packages, which are also set for removal from Debian Testing at the end of October. Among the packages dependent on intel-ipsec-mb are well-known projects such as suricata, dpdk, collectd, gnuradio, neutron, openvswitch, ovn, and stress-ng.
- psst (utility for managing CPU and GPU power consumption on Intel systems) — no new maintainer found yet. The package is orphaned.
- intel-cmt-cat (configuration and monitoring of processor cache using Intel CMT (Cache Monitoring Technology), Intel MBM (Memory Bandwidth Monitoring), and Intel CAT (Cache Allocation Technology)) — no new maintainer found yet. The package is marked as 'the current maintainer wishes to hand this package off to another participant.'
- intel-lpmd (background process for optimizing power consumption on idle Intel systems) — no new maintainer found yet. The package is marked as 'the current maintainer wishes to hand this package off to another participant.'
- numatop (top-like utility for tracking NUMA node activity) — no new maintainer found yet. The package is marked as 'the current maintainer wishes to hand this package off to another participant.'
- thermald (background process for monitoring temperature and preventing overheating on systems with Intel CPUs) — no new maintainer found yet. The package is marked as 'the current maintainer wishes to hand this package off to another participant.'
- thunderbolt-tools (utilities for debugging Intel Thunderbolt and USB4 controllers) — no new maintainer found yet. The package is marked as 'the current maintainer wishes to hand this package off to another participant.'
Source: opennet.ru
