strace/debian/control

Source: strace
Section: devel
Priority: standard
Maintainer: Roland McGrath <frob@debian.org>
Uploaders: Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org>
Build-Depends: libc6-dev (>= 2.2.2-1) [!alpha !ia64], libc6.1-dev (>= 2.2.2-1) [alpha ia64]
Standards-Version: 3.5.10

Package: strace
Architecture: alpha arm hppa i386 ia64 m68k mips mipsel powerpc s390 sh sparc
Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}
Description: A system call tracer
 strace is a system call tracer, i.e. a debugging tool which prints out
 a trace of all the system calls made by a another process/program.
 The program to be traced need not be recompiled for this, so you can
 use it on binaries for which you don't have source.
 .
 System calls and signals are events that happen at the user/kernel
 interface. A close examination of this boundary is very useful for bug
 isolation, sanity checking and attempting to capture race conditions.