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eddyxu
Asked: 2012-05-17 04:40:58 +0800 CST

Why is there no oprofile in 12.04?

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I've upgraded a ubuntu server from 11.10 to 12.04. The oprofile package i installed is missed.

As shown in https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/precise/+source/oprofile/0.9.6-1.3ubuntu1, oprofile seems to be deleted from the deb repository.

Why is that? Should I manually install oprofile or wait it back soon?

package-management performance 12.04

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/precise/+source/oprofile/0.9.6-1.3ubuntu1

    http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=653168

    Date: 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.

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  2. 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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