Bug#590858: RFP: bootchart2 -- An improved boot process performance analyser

[Riccardo Magliocchetti <riccardo.magliocchetti@gmail.com>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
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   Package name: bootchart2
        Version: 0.12.2
Upstream Author: Michael Meeks <michael.meeks@novell.com>
                 Anders Norgaard <anders.norgaard@gmail.com>
                 Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com>
                 Henning Niss <henningniss@gmail.com>
            URL: http://github.com/mmeeks/bootchart
        License: GPLv3
    Description: An improved boot process performance analyser
bootchart2 was created from the fusion of three separate
pieces of work. First - the original bootchart: a shell script, and a
Java visualisation tool written by Ziga Mahkovec. Some of the original
shell scripting, and the concept remain unchanged from this time.
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  bootchart2 replaces the Java visualisation with the more
friendly and flexible pybootchartgui (cf. README.pybootchart) written
by Anders Norgaard and Henning Niss, this lives mostly in the
pybootchart/ sub-directory.
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  bootchart2 embeds a new collector, based on a port to C of the
inner-loop of the original bootchart collector shell-script by Scott
James Remnant. This has been subsequently re-written by Michael Meeks
to use the higher granularity 'taskstat' data available via a twisted
netlink interface, amongst other new features.