[Bug 1540425] Re: install/ziomon: include FCP performance monitoring utilities in s390-tools

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------- Comment From brueckner at de.ibm.com 2016-02-02 11:07 EDT-------
Hi Dmitri,

(In reply to comment #5)
> Would it be acceptable to ship ziomon in universe, instead of in main (and
> thus installed by default)?

ziomon does not need to be installed by default.  It makes sense for
SCSI-only and mixed SCSI/DASD installations.  The documentation should
be updated so that administrators, performance users know to install it
when required.

I presume you pursue the ziomon subpackage approach.

>
> The reason behind this is the dependency chain.
>
> The proposed patch adds a Depends on "blktrace", which is in universe, and
> in turn depends on libtheora-bin & libav-tools (both in universe).

On my Debian, it is strictly not a depends, rather than recommends:

Package: blktrace
State: not installed
Version: 1.1.0-2
Priority: extra
Section: utils
Maintainer: Bas Zoetekouw <bas at debian.org>
Architecture: s390x
Uncompressed Size: 1075 k
Depends: libaio1 (>= 0.3.93), libc6 (>= 2.15), python, lsb-base
Recommends: libtheora-bin, libav-tools, librsvg2-bin
Suggests: gnuplot-x11

>
> libav-tools come from a highly vulnerable package, which Ubuntu Security
> team deems as unsupportable.
>
> I shall look into unwinding / reducing these dependencies, to have a
> possibility of including ziomon in main without the feature to generate
> H.264 videos.

I think that such low-level tools like blktrace should not install
video-related packages. So if you have some time it would be great to
rethink whether these dependencies/recommends are really necessary and
makes sense?

** Tags added: bugnameltc-136380 severity-medium

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Title:
  install/ziomon: include FCP performance monitoring utilities in
  s390-tools

Status in s390-tools package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in s390-tools package in Debian:
  New

Bug description:
  == Comment: #0 - Thorsten Diehl <thorsten.diehl at de.ibm.com> - 2016-02-01 10:09:47 ==
  Please include zfcp performance monitoring tools into s390-tools. A patch for debian has already been submitted and can be found under https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=812588

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