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Re: Getting the latest and greatest Linux perf features on every Debian kernel



On Sun, 2021-11-21 at 18:18 -0800, Ian Rogers wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'd love to package Linux perf as per Arnaldo's prepared tarball for
> Debian. If I could get help on the Debian side it would be great! The
> actions that are needed are:
> 
> 1) package Arnaldo's tarball for Debian, presumably the build in the
> sources for linux-perf-5.10 will be a good starting point. The package
> will be linux-perf and replace the current metapackage of the same
> name.

I don't think this buys us anything over building from the kernel tree
(i.e. the linux source package), but will wait to see what Arnaldo
says.

> 2) create an updated linux-base that removes /usr/bin/perf
> 
> 3) upload the updated linux-base and linux-perf packages for
> maintainer approval to https://mentors.debian.net/

linux-base is maintained by the kernel team on salsa.debian.org, where
you can send merge requests.  If linux-perf is to be a separate source
package, I think it should be maintained in the same way.

> 4) some how get the previous Debian linux-perf-[45].* packages removed
[...]

They will be removed from the Debian archive through a periodic
cleanup.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
I say we take off; nuke the site from orbit.
It's the only way to be sure.

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