Bug#844633: coz-profiler: Cannot run build tests (insufficient permissions for perf)

2016-12-16 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
Control: severity -1 important [Santiago Vila] > Based on the above comment, this bug should really be RC, because > Release Policy says that packages in stretch *must* be buildable in > stretch (this of course includes a machine running the default kernel > for stretch). All the dependencies ar

Bug#844633: coz-profiler: Cannot run build tests (insufficient permissions for perf)

2016-12-16 Thread Santiago Vila
Hi. If you absolutely need to run the tests during the build, maybe a workaround would be to add a build-depends on a package which changes the kernel value for you in its postinst (as I guess that the ordinary user used to build packages would not be able to do that). Yes, it would be a little b