Control: reassign -1 ruby2.1 On Tue, May 06, 2014 at 05:33:25PM +0200, Sebastian Boehm wrote: > Package: ruby2.0 > Version: 2.0.0.484+really457-3 > > Ruby 2.0 introduced support for DTrace, a dynamic tracing framework by Sun, > which can be used to trace running processes with minimal performance impact. > > While DTrace support on Linux still seems to be rather basic and burdened by > licensing issues, SystemTap is a free (GPL) and mature alternative for > GNU/Linux systems. Furthermore, SystemTap supports DTrace probe points such > as those already present in upstream Ruby. > > SystemTap support can be enabled simply by adding systemtap-sdt-dev as a > build dependency for Ruby. This would not result in any additional run time > dependencies for Ruby; systemtap-sdt-dev is only required at build time. > Also, due to SystemTap's design, probes do not have any performance impact > when they are not explicitly enabled by the user at run time. > > Fedora has had SystemTap support enabled since 2.0.0.0-0.1.r39387 (22 Feb > 2013) and apparently it has not caused any problems for them. > > Having Ruby in jessie support SystemTap as well would further enhance the > user experience for Ruby developers and admins on Debian. > > The attached patch enables SystemTap probes in Ruby by adding > systemtap-sdt-dev as a build dependency on Linux systems.
Hello, thanks for your bug report. However I am reassigning to ruby2.1 as ruby2.0 will not be shipped in Jessie. Can you try this on ruby2.1 and let me know? -- Antonio Terceiro <terce...@debian.org>
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