** Changed in: makedumpfile (Ubuntu Xenial)
Status: New => In Progress
** Changed in: makedumpfile (Ubuntu Xenial)
Assignee: (unassigned) => dann frazier (dannf)
** Description changed:
- $ ls arch/
- arm.c ia64.c ppc.c ppc64.c s390x.c x86.c x86_64.c
+ [Impact]
+ kdump-tools is not installable on arm64 because it depends on makedumpfile,
which is not currently built on arm64. Adding arm64 to the Architecture list in
debian/control is all that is needed for it to build successfully.
+
+ That said, xenial's version was too old to support filtering kdump-
+ enabled xenial kernels (>= 4.10.0). So, this doesn't actually produce a
+ *useful* makedumpfile, but does allow kdump-tools to be installed, which
+ unblocks collection of (unfiltered) crash dump files.
+
+ [Test Case]
+ On an arm64 system:
+ sudo apt install kdump-tools
+
+ [Regression Risk]
+ The only change here is to make a binary package available on arm64 that
previously was not - regression risk to existing architectures should therefore
be negligible.
+
+ Note: Enabling a binary package for an architecture where it's known not
+ to be useful - at last on it's own - is obviously non-ideal. I
+ considered other options, but they all seem to add unnecessary
+ regression risk:
+
+ - Demoting the "Depends:" to a "Recommends:". I actually think we should
+ do this going forward (https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-
+ bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=865701), but this would be a change in behavior to
+ people who may install kdump-tools w/ Recommends-disabled and expect to
+ stil get makedumpfile.
+
+ - Demoting only on arm64: This isn't possible unless we switch kdump-
+ tools from Binary: any to Binary: all. I also think there are good
+ reasons to do that in future releases (https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-
+ bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=863858), but it seems overkill for just enabling
+ arm64.
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makedumpfile needs porting for AArch64
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