Bug#846366: ITP: bcc -- Command line tools for BPF Compiler Collection (BCC)
Hi Ritesh,
I agree with you, there is no reason we can't coexist :)
However, perf-tools-unstable doesn't seem to be much more updated these
days, and it sorta worries me, especially since Brendan Gregg mentions
on his blog that bcc seems to be the future: in that light, do you still
see a need for perf-tools-unstable at all ?
If you do, would you be willing to take over its maintainership ? I'm
trying to save more time to contribute to security work in Debian, so
you'd be welcome to do that :)
Anyway, let me know what you think and we'll take it from there.
Cheers,
--Seb
On Nov/30, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
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> Hello Sebastien,
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> First of all, thanks for maintaining perf-tools-unstable. I use it many a times.
>
> I just completed the major chunk of bcc packaging. I intend to maintain it under
> collab-maint/ too.
>
>
> The binary file names are conflicting for bcc and perf-tools-unstable. I don't
> see a reason why one cannot co-install both the packages and use. But in its
> current form, it'll fail complaining file overwrites.
>
> Personally, I don't think the alternatives route may be of much use because
> apart from this 2 packages, I don't see any other package using these names.
> Also, IMO, the alternatives feature is usually useful for common tools like
> editor, pager etc.
>
> One option could be that we append the names of the binaries explicitly.
> Example, for bcc => execsnoop-bcc, perf-tools => execsnoop-perf
>
> What do you say ? Or if you have any suggestions, please do mention.
>
> Thanks,
> Ritesh
>
> On Wed, 2016-11-30 at 22:50 +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
> > Package: wnpp
> > Severity: wishlist
> > Owner: Ritesh Raj Sarraf <rrs@debian.org>
> >
> > * Package name : bcc
> > Version : 0.2.0
> > Upstream Author : IO Visor Project (https://github.com/iovisor)
> > * URL : https://github.com/iovisor/bcc
> > * License : Apache 2.0
> > Programming Lang: C, Python
> > Description : Tools for BPF Compiler Collection (BCC)
> >
> > BPF Compiler Collection (BCC) is a toolkit for creating efficient
> > kernel tracing and manipulation programs
> > .
> > It makes use of extended BPF (Berkeley Package Filter) and provides tools
> > for BPF based Linux IO analysis, networking, monitoring and more
> >
> > This is a great tool to debug and instrument your kernel and
> > applications. It also is a a performance characterization and analysis
> > tool
> >
> > I have an interest in Debugging and Analysis and I intend to use and
> > maintain it under Debian.
> >
> > As with most of my packages, I intend to maintain it under collab-maint
> - --
> Ritesh Raj Sarraf | http://people.debian.org/~rrs
> Debian - The Universal Operating System
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