Bug#913033: RFP: bcc -- bytecode-compiler for Linux kernel BPF

[Daniel Stender <debian@danielstender.com>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name    : bcc
  Version         : 0.7.0
  Upstream Author : IO Visor Project <wcartee@vmware.com>
* URL             : https://github.com/iovisor/bcc
* License         : Apache-2.0
  Programming Lang: C, Python, Lua
  Description     : bytecode-compiler for Linux kernel BPF

BCC is a toolkit for creating efficient kernel tracing and manipulation programs, and
includes several useful tools and examples. It makes use of extended BPF (Berkeley Packet
Filters), formally known as eBPF, a new feature that was first added to Linux 3.15.

BCC makes BPF programs easier to write, with kernel instrumentation in C (and includes a
C wrapper around LLVM), and front-ends in Python and lua. It is suited for many tasks,
including performance analysis and network traffic control.

Appearently this isn't available yet (there is a binary package of that name
which belongs to the source package linux86). Upstream already ships a debian/
folder, the binary packages build with that are libbcc, python-bcc, bcc-lua and
bcc-tools.

Thanks,
DS