Hello Guilherme, or anyone else affected,

Accepted crash into bionic-proposed. The package will build now and be
available at
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/crash/7.2.8-1ubuntu0.18.04.1 in a
few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package.  See
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how
to enable and use -proposed.  Your feedback will aid us getting this
update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug,
mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been
performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-
bionic to verification-done-bionic. If it does not fix the bug for you,
please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-
failed-bionic. In either case, without details of your testing we will
not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification .  Thank you in
advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s)
fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in
-proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

** Changed in: crash (Ubuntu Bionic)
       Status: In Progress => Fix Committed

** Tags added: verification-needed-bionic

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1865041

Title:
  Bump crash version on Bionic and Eoan to match Focal

Status in crash package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in crash source package in Bionic:
  Fix Committed
Status in crash source package in Eoan:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  [Impact]
  * The crash tool aims to allow investigating kernel core dumps collected 
through the kexec mechanism; as such, this tool is tightly coupled with kernel 
version, needing awareness for example about kernel structs layout and other 
kernel "API" details.

  * Currently the crash tool is outdated in Bionic, not allowing users
  to debug kernel core dumps collected with the latest HWE kernel
  (version 5.3). Also, many bugs and improvements are added to crash as
  newer kernels are released.

  * This LP's goal is to bump the version of crash tool in both Bionic
  and Eoan in order to match Focal version (7.2.8). With that we can
  address the Bionic issue when opening kernel 5.3 dumps and gather more
  fixes with the updated package.

  [Test Case]
  * The test performed is basically collect dumps with kdump-tools and open in 
crash. In this particular case, the tests were with kernels 4.15.0-88 and 
5.3.0-26 (in Bionic) and kernel 5.3.0-23 (in Eoan) using the crash tool built 
with the hereby attached source.

  [Regression Potential]
  * Crash tool aims to have full retro-compatibility with kernel, so the 
likelihood for regressions are low. If regressions are found, it's likely the 
same regression applies to all crash/kernel pair versions, so by having the 
package synced between releases we increase the exposure to gather more bug 
reports and fix things in a more straightforward fashion.

  NOTICE: This bump was agreed with Ubuntu kdump-tools/crash maintainer,
  Thadeu Cascardo.

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