** Description changed: - Placeholder - will enhance this description soon. + [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 + + * Currently the crash tool is outdated in Bionic, not allowing users to + debug kernel core dumps collected with the latest HWE kernel (version + 5.3).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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