FYI: Apport retracers are back

[Bryce Harrington]

Awesome, thanks!!

On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 11:14:16AM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> as Sebastien announced a while ago, the Apport crash retracers had
> been broken for several weeks because fakechroot has pretty much
> stopped doing anything sensible in oneiric, so our approach with
> constructing chroots, and using fakeroot/fakechroot to do the
> reprocessing in them stopped working.
> 
> Yesterday I reengineered the whole thing, using some shiny gdb options
> which weren't available back then, so that the retracers now work
> without any chrooting. This also resulted in apport-retrace now being
> a lot more useful locally (it just works in a temp directory instead
> of installing packages and ddebs into your working system). I'll clean
> up the branch and merge it into trunk soon.
> 
> For now the branch is rolled out into the DC, and retracing 
> works again. Barring more LP timeouts to work around, it should catch
> up with the backlog in the next days.
> 
> Martin
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