On Sun, Feb 24, 2019 at 07:38:12PM -0700, Nicholas D Steeves wrote: > Control: retitle -1 heaptrack -- resolve poor discoverability > > On Sat, Dec 01, 2018 at 07:38:05PM -0500, Nicholas D Steeves wrote: > > Package: src:heaptrack > > Severity: normal > > > > https://salsa.debian.org/science-team/heaptrack/merge_requests/1 > > > > This MR merges Anton's work from experimental and enhances the > > description to make heaptrack discoverable via keyword search, plus > > adds a couple of extremely brief comparisons with Valgrind. > > > > When I was debugging a dbus+kde memory ballooning/memleak issue, I was > > not able to find heaptrack with a keyword search, so packaged > > memleax. Having now discovered heaptrack via the memleax bugtracker > > (yes, really!) I believe the best path forward is to make heaptrack > > discoverable and scrap my work on memleax. > > > > Thank you for considering this MR, > > Nicholas > > It has been almost three months without a reply, so to address > Heaptrack's discoverability issue I plan an NMU delayed + x days to > 2019-03-01 of the proposed updates to the description, without merging > the commits from experimental. I will file a new MR to make > integrating the NMU easier. > > Memleax has been abandoned upstream and I have filed a RoM NPOASR at > #923206, and Heaptrack now appears to be the only software in Debian > that can debug memleaks in an already-running process. > > Respectfully, > Nicholas
New MR filed here: https://salsa.debian.org/science-team/heaptrack/merge_requests/2
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