Bug#943551: trace-cmd in debian is very old compared to upstream

Sudip Mukherjee sudipm.mukherjee at gmail.com
Sat Oct 26 12:40:00 UTC 2019


On Sat, Oct 26, 2019 at 11:12:00AM +0100, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 26, 2019 at 10:31:52AM +0100, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> > Package: trace-cmd
> > Version: 2.6.1-0.1
> > Severity: important
> > 
> > The trace-cmd package in debian seems to be very old. The upstream
> > available version is v2.8.3 and the version used in debian is v2.5.3.
> > There had been major improvements in trace-cmd and kernelshark recently.
> 
> And it has been removed from bullseye also. Is the package orphan now?
> Its not in the orphaned package list.

update: It was removed because of #885529.
I just built v2.8.3 in bullseye and verified that both trace-cmd and
kernelshark works. I will try to package it now.
Is it too late to add it in bullseye?

Not sure who can advice so adding wnpp.

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Regards
Sudip



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