Why is there no oprofile in 12.04?
I've upgraded a ubuntu server from 11.10 to 12.04. The oprofile package i installed is missed.
As shown in , oprofile seems to be deleted from the deb repository.
Why is that? Should I manually install oprofile or wait it back soon?
12 Answers
1Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2011 16:56:55 +0100
Source: oprofile Severity: serious
oprofile seems like a candidate for removal:
- Last maintainer upload in 2009
- No followup to security or RC bugs from the maintainers
- Low popcon
- Alternatives exist (perf)
- Depends on legacy libs (604366)
- Broken wih current kernels (615964)
Unless there're objections/fixes, I'll file a removal bug in a month.
Well, Debian is always looking for volunteers to maintain packages. And eventually, this seems like the best way to get packages (back) into Ubuntu. And the fact that there was no maintainer upload since 2009 is dated to Dec 2011, so the upstream release you mentioned happened after that. And an upstream release is different from a maintainer upload. It would be nice to have Oprofile back in Debian (and Ubuntu), but it will probably not happen without a volunteer stepping up to maintain the package (not necessarily oprofile itself).
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