❦ 9 mai 2019 10:28 +02, Paul Gevers <elbrus@debian.org>: > I fear you're not going to like my mail, sorry. No problem! >> Please unblock package bpftrace >> >> Upstream told me 0.9 is the first release where the API (to write >> bpftrace code snippets) has been stabilized, so scripts and docs will >> stop breaking. For example, there was the introduction of "elapsed" >> variable to record the time since the beginning of the execution. Or >> the use of the `struct` keyword (like in C) when casting. Without >> these changes, scripts written by the community may not work on Debian >> without adaptation. It would therefore be helpful we include this >> release in the next Debian. >> >> The package was never in a stable release. It entered testing the >> first time a couple of months ago. It is a leaf package. >> >> Here is the diffstat (full diff is too big). > > Indeed. At this stage of the release, we are very reluctant to let new > upstream versions into buster. Therefor I don't want to unblock this > request. However, given the statements above, should we then be shipping > bpftrace as all in buster? In my opinion, this is material for > bullseye. I'll ask upstream what he thinks of that. It's still an amazing tool to have. -- Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion. -- Mark Twain
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