Dear Evgeni and Gustavo,
Following up on this 30 Jul 2020 bug: Tuned is a salvaging candidate because it has seen no activity since 2018, and 5/6 of the open bugs are missing a follow up to the submitter's OP, and the latest release in Debian is 2.10 while 2.14 is available, and 2.15 is just around the corner. Some notable features in 2.10 -> 2.14 (356 commits) are:
cgroup support
built-in irqbalance plugin
AMD and Marvell ThunderX-specific tuning
fixes for BASHisms (makes our /bin/dash happy, closes #930489)
Intel SST support
Updated tunings, presumably for recent kernels, and/or in response to test data
C-states in latency specification
too many bugfixes to mention...
disable-process-matching.patch can be dropped, because we now have python3-linux-procfs
no_action.patch may have been fixed upstream, and
python37.patch appears to be from upstream, so is almost certainly fixed in 2.14.
I would offer to help out more, and/or even to salvage it, but I'm already stressed with completing my backqueue in time for the softfreeze, and am thus not the best person to get the package into shape for bullseye.
Would you please consider updating the package, or orphaning it so someone will see the wnpp alert and can adopt it without delay? As you prefer! I'm also CCing our Multimedia Team, because the tuned is of interest to people who do digital audio work. A realtime kernel and sysctl tuning is often--usually, in my experience--required when using a USB interface, which is what most people are using these days, and tuned is supposed to make this a lot easier and less error-prone. Tuned-2.10 was/is not sufficient to get my system into a usable state for audio work, and I'm hoping I can replace all my customisations with tuned-2.14, and that less experienced users will have an easier time of the tricky work of tuning :-)