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

Sudip Mukherjee sudipm.mukherjee at gmail.com
Mon Oct 28 15:58:38 UTC 2019


Thanks Seth for the reply.

On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 2:14 PM Seth Forshee <seth.forshee at canonical.com> 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.
> >
> > I can help in updating it if the ubuntu kernel team is busy.
>
> Yes, I had been keeping it up to date for some time, but it's not really
> something I have time for anymore. If you or someone else is interested
> in taking over the package, please feel free.

I am willing to take over the package. But not sure what the process
is for that.
In any case, I will continue to build the package and upload to
mentors in few days.


-- 
Regards
Sudip



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