[Bug 1696814] Please test proposed package

[Brian Murray]

Hello Brian, or anyone else affected,

Accepted whoopsie into xenial-proposed. The package will build now and
be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/whoopsie/0.2.52.4
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 and change the tag from
verification-needed-xenial to verification-done-xenial. If it does not
fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the
tag to verification-failed-xenial. In either case, details of your
testing will help us make a better decision.

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

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Title:
  add openjdk hs log to list of acceptable_fields in whoopsie

Status in whoopsie package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in whoopsie source package in Xenial:
  Fix Committed
Status in whoopsie source package in Zesty:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  [Impact] 
  By default OpenJDK 8 generates an hs_err file when it crashes, this file contains the stacktrace generated by OpenJDK (thus it contains different data compared to a gdb stacktrace) plus information on the running threads, classes, and memory usage (OpenJDK's regions). This file is usually required by the OpenJDK and/or IcedTea upstream developers when filling a bug and, in the case of OpenJDK, is more useful than the incomplete stacktrace that GDB can generate from OpenJDK crashes.

  OpenJDK 8 now includes a new apport hook to collect additional data
  from crash reports as well as the hs_err log file (in the new
  HotspotError key).

  A new release is soon reaching Zesty and Xenial with the hook included
  and without SRU'ing this fix the hs_err file won't be uploaded to the
  error tracker.

  [Test Case]
  1. Start any java program using OpenJDK 8
  2. Kill it with SIGILL
  3. Check that the created report contains the hs_err file

  [Regression Potential] 
  If the new key is added to acceptable_fields whoopsie will upload the entries in it. Currently the OpenJDK apport hook limits this to 100 KB, but changes to it could allow bigger files with in turn cause an overhead in the error tracker infrastructure.

  [Original bug report]
  OpenJDK 8 apport hook attaches the hs_err_pid<pid>.log (if it exists) to a Crash report under the HotspotError key. The hook is currently limited to attaching files under 100 KB.

  Please add HotspotError key to the whitelist in order for it to be
  available in error tracker.

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