Bug#971976: libtraceevent-dev: please build from git.kernel.org/pub/scm/libs/libtrace/libtraceevent.git

[Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>]

Hi Ben,

On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 09:35:00PM +0100, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> Hi Ben,
> 
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 05:26:37PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > On Sat, 2020-10-10 at 23:25 +0100, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> > > Source: linux
> > > Severity: wishlist
> > > X-Debbugs-Cc: ben@decadent.org.uk, debian-kernel@lists.debian.org
> > > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > This is similar to #948041 and libtraceevent now lives in its own repo
> > > at git.kernel.org/pub/scm/libs/libtrace/libtraceevent.git.
> > > 
> > > The upstream maintainer hopes that this will now be the source of all
> > > updates to the libtraceevent library that can be used as a stand alone
> > > package that both perf and tracecmd can use.
> > > 
> > > Link to the announcement mail at:
> > > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20201007130750.49349844@gandalf.local.home/
> > > 
> > > If the kernel team agrees I can raise a MR to remove the build of
> > > libtraceevent from the kernel source and can also make it a separate
> > > package and maintain it.
> > 
> > I have no objection to this.  Thanks for taking this on, Sudip.
> 
> Thanks.
> I have opened the MR to remove libtracevent from kernel at:
> https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/-/merge_requests/275.
> 
> And the new package for libtraceevent is at:
> https://salsa.debian.org/sudip/libtraceevent.
> I have not uploaded yet, just thought if you will like to have a look at
> it first (specially the copyright for debian/*).

Did you get the chance to have a look at it? Or if you are busy now I can
upload and modify copyright for debian/* later after it has passed the
NEW queue.

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Regards
Sudip