Please backport smemstat 0.01.14-1 (universe) from wily

Bug #1473385 reported by Colin Ian King
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Won't Fix
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Bug Description

Please backport smemstat 0.01.14-1 (universe) from wily to vivid.

Reason for the backport:
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smemstat is used in ubuntu-touch for finding system memory leak
regressions and will be a key QA/CI tool for regular phone
image testing. In order to make it useful to the QA process I have
optimised smemstat to use less CPU and fixed a null pointer
deference bug that occurs when there is a lot of low memory
pressure on a system causing /proc UID information to become
unavailable for transient processes.

These changes don't alter the fundamental functionality of smemstat.
Notable changes are:

  * fix null ptr dereference when uid can't be read (lp: #1473245)
  * use strrok instead of strtok_r
  * make memory scanning more efficient
  * simplify the timeval add/sub operations.
  * Minor white space cleanups
  * Remove trap on SIGSEGV
  * smemstat: remove sighandler on SIGILL, SIGABRT, SIGBUS
  * Manual: Add copyright and update date
  * Makefile: add copyright

Testing:
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Mark off items in the checklist [X] as you test them, but please leave the checklist so that backporters can quickly evaluate the state of testing.

You can test-build the backport in your PPA with backportpackage:
$ backportpackage -u ppa:<lp username>/<ppa name> -s wily -d vivid smemstat

* vivid:
[X] Package builds without modification
[X] smemstat installs cleanly and runs
[ ] smemstat-dbgsym installs cleanly and runs

Reverse dependencies:
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The following reverse-dependencies need to be tested against the new version of smemstat. For reverse-build-dependencies (-Indep), please test that the package still builds against the new smemstat. For reverse-dependencies, please test that the version of the package currently in the release still works with the new smemstat installed. Reverse- Recommends, Suggests, and Enhances don't need to be tested, and are listed for completeness-sake.

smemstat
--------
* ubuntu-touch
  [ ] vivid (Reverse-Depends)
* ubuntu-desktop-next
  [ ] vivid (Reverse-Depends)

smemstat-dbgsym
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Dan Streetman (ddstreet)
Changed in vivid-backports:
status: New → Won't Fix
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