Forw/Re: Removal of systemtap from testing

[Frank Ch. Eigler]

Hi, Ritesh -

On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 01:01:54PM +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
> [...]
> The 1.6 packaging is almost done. It runs on my box.

Thank you very much.

> TODO:
> * 1.6 stripped down many things. The systemtap-client package is almost
> empty. The only worthy file it installs is stap-env. I'm not sure if
> that is still required (I use stap only on my local box).

You can eliminate the -client subpackage entirely.  That facility is
built into the main stap executable now.

> * There were a bunch of CVEs. We need to run through them to check which
> all are fixed in the 1.6 release.  If they are not, we need to pull in
> those fixes.

They are.

> * There's also an FTBFS with newer gcc. That needs to be fixed.

We're happy to pull in such patches; we'll keep an eye out here:

http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/systemtap.git;a=tree;f=debian/patches

- FChE
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