Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dear mentors,
I am looking for a sponsor for an NMU of "heaptrack", to fix its poor discoverability. It builds these binary packages: heaptrack - heap memory profiler for Linux heaptrack-gui - heap memory profiler for Linux libheaptrack - heap memory profiler for Linux To access further information about this package, please visit the following URL: https://mentors.debian.net/package/heaptrack Alternatively, one can download the package with dget using this command: dget -x https://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/h/heaptrack/heaptrack_1.1.0+20180922.gitf752536-3.1.dsc More information about heaptrack can be obtained from https://github.com/KDE/heaptrack. Changes since the last upload: heaptrack (1.1.0+20180922.gitf752536-3.1) unstable; urgency=medium * Non-maintainer upload. * Update description to make heaptrack more discoverable to users. (Closes: #915241) -- Nicholas D Steeves <[email protected]> Sun, 24 Feb 2019 19:44:03 -0700 heaptrack (1.1.0+20180922.gitf752536-3) unstable; urgency=medium I've updated the description for all three bin:packages, and I believe you will agree that the following diff fragment represents a significant improvement, and justifies the NMU (apt search keyword will find heaptrack): -Description: Heap memory profiler for Linux - Heap memory usage profiler. It uses LD_PRELOAD to track all - calls to the core memory allocation functions and logs these - occurrences. Additionally, backtraces are obtained and logged. +Description: heap memory profiler for Linux + Heap memory usage profiler. It uses LD_PRELOAD to track all calls + to the core memory allocation functions and logs these occurrences. + Additionally, backtraces are obtained and logged. It can also + generate a historigram of allocation sizes over the number of + calls. Heaptrack measures the following: . - The package contains command line tools. + * Heap memory consumption (like Massif). + * Number of calls to allocation functions (like callgrind). + * Total amount of memory allocated, ignoring deallocations. + * Leaked memory (like memcheck). + . + Heaptrack is notable for it's ability to attach to running processes, + for consuming substantially less memory than Valgrind, and for not + reducing an application's interactivity as much as Valgrind does. + Heaptrack is useful for debugging memory leaks and memory ballooning. + . + The package contains the command line tools. Regards, Nicholas
