On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 12:30 PM, Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 10:05:54PM +0100, Dominik 'Rathann'
Mierzejewski wrote:
> Hi, Florian.
>
> On Thursday, 28 November 2013 at 11:38, Florian Weimer wrote:
> > There seems to be a library for processing kernel monitoring events
> > called "pevent", "libtrace", "traceevent" etc.,
which might
> > originally come from the kernel package (and is used there by perf),
> > but is copied at least into powertop and rasdaemon.
> >
> > Does this fall under the scope of the "no bundled libraries" goal?
>
> It might. Please file bugs against packages which do the bundling
> and make them block DuplicSysLibsTracker.
>
If you don't want to unbundle the library from the other packages
ou'll want to file an FPC ticket as well. I've pinged jwb about this
to see if the kernel guys have some information that might be relevant to
whether we should grant an exception or not.
I talked to Steven Rostedt, one of the upstream authors of the lib.
It seems they're working towards providing it as a shared lib, but
aren't quite ready to do that yet. Until they think they're in a
position to ship a shared lib and not have it break things using it on
upgrade, I'd suggest people go for the exception. We update the
kernel far too often to start shipping a library with an unstable
API/ABI.
josh