Re: Bug#726248: sdt.h conflict with kfreebsd-kernel-headers and systemtap-sdt-dev
On 20/10/2013 15:31, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> It would be good to know if it actually works and has any programs/users.
> I was only asking because if user space dtrace does work then it might
> be a good idea to make it understand the sys/sdt.h variant ELF notes.
> But if there are no programs/users for it currently then it would be
> easier to resolve the conflict between the packages. I don't know enough
> about Debian kfreebsd to tell what (user space) solution is best.
Thank you (and Frank) for the in-depth explanation.
Well I think it doesn't hurt to let systemtap-sdt-dev provide sys/sdt.h
at least for the time being. If later on (i.e. when we actually have
DTrace) we find out that there are significant shortcomings, we can
always revert that decision. In the meantime this will allow us to
verify that the magic in GDB also works on GNU/kFreeBSD.
My suggestion, assuming everyone is okay with it, would be that you make
this package arch-all and add a:
Replaces: kfreebsd-kernel-headers [kfreebsd-any]
to debian/control.
--
Robert Millan
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