Bug 2232044 - gperftool's pprof should not be packaged anymore
Summary: gperftool's pprof should not be packaged anymore
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Status: NEW
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gperftools
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: All
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low
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Assignee: Tom "spot" Callaway
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Reported: 2023-08-15 02:21 UTC by Aliaksei Kandratsenka
Modified: 2024-06-03 15:29 UTC (History)
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Description Aliaksei Kandratsenka 2023-08-15 02:21:20 UTC
Description of problem:

gperftool's pprof should not be packaged anymore. This is old perl-based implementation that is unsupported and much much less great than Go version at https://github.com/google/pprof

Please, package Go pprof instead.

We intend to drop perl version entirely in a release or two (it is currently relied on by symbolizer facility). Do note that we currently install pprof-symbolize to $prefix/bin to support that symbolization facility which is just a copy of perl pprof anyways. But we want to start moving users to Go pprof. I.e. /usr/bin/pprof should be taken by Go pprof, not "ours".

In order to disable make install from installing pprof, pass --disable-deprecated-pprof to configure script.

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Comment 1 Fedora Release Engineering 2023-08-16 08:15:29 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora Linux 39 development cycle.
Changing version to 39.


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