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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