Ubuntu
linux-aws package

  1. Focal (20.04)
  2. Bug #1944754
  3. Comment #0

Comment 0 for bug 1944754

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Tim Gardner (timg-tpi) wrote :

SRU Justification

[Impact]
For debugging purposes, on EC2, people will install linux-tools-$(uname -r) to help with debugging the system. This selects the kernel specific linux-tools package, and for the AWS variant, we are missing the library libperf-jvmti.so to enable tracing Java applications with perf.

To get a libperf-jvmti.so library, we need to perform an additional and confusing step by installing linux-tools-generic to get a copy of the library. Customers on AWS EC2 should not have to do this. We would like the linux-tools-aws packages to contain libperf-jvmti.so.

[Test Plan]

Install linux-tools-aws, check for libperf-jvmti.so

[Where problems could occur]

Given that linux-tools-aws installs in a versioned (unique) directory, there should be no conflicts or possibility of regression.