Bug#861646: ITP: reprounzip -- Linux tools for reproducible experiments

[Ghislain Vaillant <ghisvail@gmail.com>]

On Tue, 2017-05-02 at 12:55 -0400, Rémi Rampin wrote:
> 2017-05-02 12:11 EDT, Ghislain Vaillant:
> > Do you mean Linux the kernel or the platform? The tracer would not work
> > on a non-Linux kernel such as FreeBSD or the Hurd, am I right?
> 
> The tracer requires a Linux kernel, and currently only supports x86 and x86_64.

Thanks for clarifying. Just out-of-curiosity, why is the tracer
restricted to x86? 

> > Since the tool itself targets reproducible experiments *on* Linux, but
> > is not specific *to* Linux, what about "Tool for reproducing
> > experiments on Linux"?
> 
> This makes it sound like you can only re-run the experiments if you're
> using Linux.

Well first, reprozip usage is restricted to Linux, and reprounzip
requires some form of Linux runtime to execute the experiment. So, I
believe the short description is quite accurate.

Besides, keep in mind that there is also a long description associated
with it, which I took verbatim from PyPI.

Would you prefer "on Linux platforms" instead?