Bug#755838: ITP: perf-tools -- DTrace-like tools for linux

2014-07-24 Thread Sébastien Delafond
On Jul/24, Ben Hutchings wrote: If it stays in testing, it will go into the next stable and you then need to support some arbitrary version for ~3 years. OK, I initially thought it was the mention about the caveats in the package's description that led to your request. About the arbitrary

Bug#755838: ITP: perf-tools -- DTrace-like tools for linux

2014-07-24 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2014-07-24 at 12:33 +0200, Sébastien Delafond wrote: On Jul/24, Ben Hutchings wrote: If it stays in testing, it will go into the next stable and you then need to support some arbitrary version for ~3 years. OK, I initially thought it was the mention about the caveats in the

Bug#755838: ITP: perf-tools -- DTrace-like tools for linux

2014-07-23 Thread Sebastien Delafond
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sebastien Delafond s...@debian.org Package name: perf-tools Version : 0.0.1~20140723+git942be0b3 Upstream Author : Brendan Gregg * URL : https://github.com/brendangregg/perf-tools * License : GPL-2 Programming Lang:

Bug#755838: ITP: perf-tools -- DTrace-like tools for linux

2014-07-23 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2014-07-23 at 21:32 +0200, Sebastien Delafond wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sebastien Delafond s...@debian.org Package name: perf-tools Please choose a different name so that it won't be mistaken for linux-tools. Perhaps 'perf-tools-unstable'. Version

Bug#755838: ITP: perf-tools -- DTrace-like tools for linux

2014-07-23 Thread Sébastien Delafond
On Jul/23, Ben Hutchings wrote: Package name: perf-tools Please choose a different name so that it won't be mistaken for linux-tools. Perhaps 'perf-tools-unstable'. Sure, I can do that: I'll re-upload it to NEW with another name. Many of these tools employ workarounds so that

Bug#755838: ITP: perf-tools -- DTrace-like tools for linux

2014-07-23 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2014-07-23 at 23:28 +0200, Sébastien Delafond wrote: On Jul/23, Ben Hutchings wrote: Package name: perf-tools Please choose a different name so that it won't be mistaken for linux-tools. Perhaps 'perf-tools-unstable'. Sure, I can do that: I'll re-upload it to NEW with