Bug#1067577: sysprof: B-D on libunwind-dev which is not generally available

[Thorsten Glaser]

Simon McVittie dixit:

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Thanks for looking into this.

I looked at libunwind for a bit, but it requires intricate
knowledge of debugging formats and everything.

>I've pushed a commit to gtk4 to disable the libsysprof-capture
>dependency and integration on architectures where it isn't available,
>and I think that's probably a good approach in the 5 other source
>packages with a similar dependency.

Agreed.

>At the time of writing, sysprof is available on all release
>architectures, plus powerpc and ppc64. I'm not intending to upload gtk4
>right now, but this change will be in the next gtk4 upload unless
>there's a showstopper problem with it.

lgtm; m68k successfully built gtk4 as an older version of
sysprof was still available and installable, and the other
ports architectures except hurd-amd64 will likely have the
same.

bye,
//mirabilos
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