{"id":144259,"date":"2025-10-07T11:11:56","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T09:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prohoster.info\/blog\/novosti-interneta\/3-zabroshennyh-intel-paketa-namecheny-dlya-udaleniya-iz-debian-testing"},"modified":"2025-10-07T11:11:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T09:11:56","slug":"3-zabroshennyh-intel-paketa-namecheny-dlya-udaleniya-iz-debian-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prohoster.info\/en\/blog\/news\/3-zabroshennyh-intel-paketa-namecheny-dlya-udaleniya-iz-debian-testing","title":{"rendered":"3 abandoned Intel packages are set for removal from Debian Testing","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"
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. <\/p>\n
In the current list of orphaned packages, only one of the mentioned packages is noted \u2014 psst. The others are marked as candidates for being orphaned and are mentioned in the list of packages for which maintainers are sought, as the current maintainer wishes to hand over the packages to someone else. <\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
Current status of support for packages abandoned after the staff layoffs from Intel: <\/p>\n
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accel-config (components for configuring Intel DSA (Data Streaming Accelerators)) \u2014 a new maintainer was found for the package on September 3.\n
qatlib (a library for accelerating encryption, authentication, and compression operations using Intel QuickAssist technology) \u2014 on August 18, Hector Cao from Canonical expressed readiness to maintain this package in Ubuntu.\n
qatzip (a library for working with ZIP archives that utilizes acceleration based on Intel QuickAssist technology) \u2014 on September 8, Hector Cao from Canonical expressed readiness to maintain this package in Ubuntu.\n
qatengine (components supporting Intel QuickAssist technology in OpenSSL) \u2014 on September 8, Hector Cao from Canonical expressed readiness to maintain 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.\n
ipp-crypto (a library with cryptographic primitives accelerated using Intel AVX-512 instructions) \u2014 no new maintainer has been found yet. The package is scheduled for removal from Debian Testing on October 29 due to an unresolved build issue.\n
intel-ipsec-mb (an implementation of cryptographic functions for IPSec optimized using Intel MBC (Multi-Buffer Crypto) technology) \u2014 no new maintainer has been 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 packages, which are also scheduled for removal from Debian Testing at the end of October. Among the projects dependent on intel-ipsec-mb are well-known projects such as suricata, dpdk, collectd, gnuradio, neutron, openvswitch, ovn, and stress-ng.\n
psst (a utility for managing the power consumption of Intel CPUs and GPUs) \u2014 no new maintainer has been found. The package has an orphaned status.\n
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)) \u2014 no new maintainer has been found yet. The package is marked as 'the current maintainer wishes to transfer the package to another participant.'\n
intel-lpmd (background process lpmd (Low Power Model Daemon) for optimizing power consumption on Intel systems in idle state) \u2014 no new maintainer has been found yet. The package is marked as 'the current maintainer wishes to transfer the package to another participant.'\n
numatop (top-like utility for tracking NUMA node activity) \u2014 no new maintainer has been found yet. The package is marked as 'the current maintainer wishes to transfer the package to another participant.'\n
thermald (background process for monitoring temperature and preventing overheating on systems with Intel CPUs) \u2014 no new maintainer has been found yet. The package is marked as 'the current maintainer wishes to transfer the package to another participant.'\n
thunderbolt-tools (utilities for debugging Intel Thunderbolt and USB4 controllers) \u2014 no new maintainer has been found yet. The package is marked as 'the current maintainer wishes to transfer the package to another participant.' <\/ul>\n