Bug#778249: Packaging turbostat?
On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 10:38:46PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Tue, 2016-10-11 at 13:36 -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> > I'm still interested in seeing a package for turbostat, built from the
> > Linux kernel sources.
> >
> > The linux-tools packages seem to have become transitional packages for
> > perf. Any chance of expanding them to include other tools built from
> > the kernel sources, such as turbostat?
>
> I'd be happy to add binary packages for these other tools, so long
> as they are being properly maintained upstream. If they don't have
> tight kernel version dependencies then no version suffixes or
> metapackage would be needed. perf is special in that it often depends
> on new kernel features and it is recommended to match the perf userland
> and kernel versions. I think we originally expected this to be true of
> other tools but that has not been the case.
turbostat shouldn't generally have *tight* version requirements. It'd
be nice to have the latest version from the latest kernel sources, but
shouldn't need lockstep upgrades.
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