I discussed about this with Aurélien quickly on IRC today, but that's an issue that I've been thinking about for some time. We currently build a flavor of the libc with profiling support. With tools like oprofile and the libc6-dbg package, the need for is is definitely smaller than before. gprof is less accurate for timings, but more accurate to count real number of times a function was called. Though I believe that people wanting to do that usually care aboute _their_ code, and not really aboute the libc itself. My point is that libc6-prof isn't terribly useful nowadays, and that it's probably accountable for 25 to 33% of the libc build time (not the test-suite though), which is probably a nice time save to make. I'd like to know what you people think, and I'll probably pop that question on -devel@ if enough of us believe this package indeed has leass meaning and could go away. Cheers, -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O madcoder@debian.org OOO http://www.madism.org
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