Bug#280030: libc6: sprof location

[Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>]

On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 02:50:06PM +0900, GOTO Masanori wrote:
> severity 280030 wishlist
> thanks
> 
> At Sat, 06 Nov 2004 20:19:22 +0100,
> Miroslaw Kwasniak wrote:
> > Please move sprof from libc6-prof to libc6-dev or even to libc6.
> > It's precious even without lib*_p.a.
> 
> Why?  We everytime need concrete reason to change something like this
> because libc6 affects a lot of packages.
> 
> I guess it is just historical reason to have separate package
> libc6-prof, but I also think there's no strong reason to move it to
> libc6.
> 
> Again, we need concrete reason.  If you don't have reasons, I will not
> touch to change libc6-prof, and close this wishlist.

Huh?  Goto, please think about bugs before flaming them.  Let's look at
the description of libc6-prof:

Description: GNU C Library: Profiling Libraries
 Static libraries compiled with profiling info (-pg) suitable for use
 with gprof.

libc6-prof exists to hold the _p libraries, because they are very large
and almost no one wants them.  sprof is not a static library suitable
for use with gprof.  In fact, it's only usable on shared libraries, so
forcing people to install the profiling libraries to get it doesn't
make much sense!

I think this would be a great change to make.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz