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-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to crash in Ubuntu. 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 Released Status in crash source package in Eoan: Fix Released 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 * Currently the crash tool is outdated in Bionic, not allowing users to debug kernel core dumps collected with the latest HWE kernel (version 5.3).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. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/crash/+bug/1865041/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
