On Fri, 8 Apr 2022 at 05:55, Julian Andres Klode <julian.kl...@canonical.com> wrote:
> Hi > > I was running ltrace today and noticed it doesn't really work at > all anymore for binaries (tried ls, dpkg, apt, hello) in jammy, > presumably due to PIE. > I think strictly speaking it's actually BIND_NOW rather than PIE directly (although in practice the two come as a package): https://alioth-lists-archive.debian.net/pipermail/ltrace-devel/2016-May/001378.html It also fails to build on various architectures, unmaintained > since 4 years, and not really up to our quality standards > anymore IMO. > > I'm proposing to remove this: > > > https://code.launchpad.net/~juliank/ubuntu-seeds/+git/platform/+merge/418876 > > vorlon asked me to raise this here and get some feedback, > does anyone have an objection to this? > I think it's a good idea. FWIW, there is another tool that does a similar thing but using a more supported facility: latrace. This uses the LD_AUDIT stuff in glibc. If there is desire to have this functionality in main (something I'm not particularly confident of, to be sure), it would seem to be a better choice. Cheers, mwh > I know it's late in the cycle, but if the tool is (mostly) useless, > demoting it should actually help users to not waste their time. > -- > debian developer - deb.li/jak | jak-linux.org - free software dev > ubuntu core developer i speak de, en > -- > ubuntu-devel mailing list > ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel >
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