Ack: Enable TUI support for perf in linux-tools

[Brad Figg]

On 04/25/2012 01:31 PM, Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski wrote:
> This simple patch series for natty/oneiric/precise adds a build depend
> for libnewt-dev, so perf can have its newt interface (TUI) enabled.
> 
> SRU Justification
> =================
> 
> Impact
> ------
> newt UI (TUI) is disabled with perf report if libnewt-dev is unavailable
> when perf is built.
> 
> Fix
> ---
> Ensure libnewt-dev is installed when building perf, adding the proper
> Build-Depends to the linux source.
> 
> Testcase
> --------
> 1. perf record <command>
> 2. perf report --tui
> 3. perf report --stdio
> 
> For 2, newt interface should load with the recorded data (perf.data from
> record command). Text interface (--stdio) should continue to work as
> before, for the third invocation.
> 


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