Bug#915241: heaptrack -- resolve poor discoverability

[Nicholas D Steeves]

On Sun, Feb 24, 2019 at 07:38:12PM -0700, Nicholas D Steeves wrote:
> 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

New MR filed here:

  https://salsa.debian.org/science-team/heaptrack/merge_requests/2
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