Control: tags -1 moreinfo Hi Vincent,
I fear you're not going to like my mail, sorry. On Thu, 21 Mar 2019 09:18:26 +0100 Vincent Bernat <ber...@debian.org> wrote: > 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. Paul
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