Bug#915241: heaptrack -- resolve poor discoverability

[Nicholas D Steeves]

Control: retitle -1 heaptrack -- resolve poor discoverability

On Sat, Dec 01, 2018 at 07:38:05PM -0500, Nicholas D Steeves wrote:
> Package: src:heaptrack
> Severity: normal
> 
> https://salsa.debian.org/science-team/heaptrack/merge_requests/1
> 
> This MR merges Anton's work from experimental and enhances the
> description to make heaptrack discoverable via keyword search, plus
> adds a couple of extremely brief comparisons with Valgrind.
> 
> When I was debugging a dbus+kde memory ballooning/memleak issue, I was
> not able to find heaptrack with a keyword search, so packaged
> memleax. Having now discovered heaptrack via the memleax bugtracker
> (yes, really!) I believe the best path forward is to make heaptrack
> discoverable and scrap my work on memleax.
> 
> Thank you for considering this MR,
> Nicholas

It has been almost three months without a reply, so to address
Heaptrack's discoverability issue I plan an NMU delayed + x days to
2019-03-01 of the proposed updates to the description, without merging
the commits from experimental.  I will file a new MR to make
integrating the NMU easier.

Memleax has been abandoned upstream and I have filed a RoM NPOASR at
#923206, and Heaptrack now appears to be the only software in Debian
that can debug memleaks in an already-running process.

Respectfully,
Nicholas
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