Comment 2 for bug 1537125

> 9. apply systemtap fixes
> see BZ - https://bugzilla.linux.ibm.com/show_bug.cgi?id=131220

Please test with the actual systemtap package from trusty-proposed (2.3-1ubuntu1.3), instead of manually patching the source.

> make check

This is not being run at build time because it is too intrusive on the build environment, as described at <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=526957>. But it should have been part of the autopkgtests for this package, and those autopkgtests should be run for each new kernel. ("Should", but is not the case today.)

Please note that systemtap is not supported by Canonical except as the systemtap-sdt-dev package which is used as a build-dependency for various other supported packages. While it would be acceptable per the Ubuntu archive policy to include a new upstream version of systemtap into trusty-updates, the regression testing for such an update must include tests of the reverse-dependencies (ust and php5).

So we intend to decline this SRU for the 14.04.4 release. I have also marked bug #1511347 "verification-failed" based on the results of this testing with the 14.04.4 kernel. If IBM believes it useful to proceed with that previous SRU of systemtap, so that it's enabled for compatibility with systems running the (Canonical-supported) 14.04.3 kernel, we can reverse that and still release the SRU.