❦ 9 mai 2019 10:28 +02, Paul Gevers <elb...@debian.org>: > I fear you're not going to like my mail, sorry.
No problem!
>> 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.
I'll ask upstream what he thinks of that. It's still an amazing tool to
have.
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