PSA: crash retracing for 19.10

[Brian Murray]

We used to be in the habit of sending Public Service Announcements (PSA)
to this mailing list when there were things worth announcing whether
they be changes to packages in the distribution or infrastructure and
tools used by Ubuntu developers. I think this would a good practice to
revive and would like everybody to think about changes they make and
whether they are worth announcing to other developers.

Unfortunately, the PSA I'm sending is actually about something that is
broken. :-( The Ubuntu Error Tracker and retracing system for Launchpad
both rely upon apport to retrace crashes and apport in turn depends on
some infrastructure which is not currently available[1] for Ubuntu
19.10. Subsequently, all retracing of 19.10 crashes is failing.

A solution to this problem is currently being discussed and I'm also
working to enable retracing for focal crashes, which may have similar
crash signatures to 19.10 crashes and could provide us some useful
information.

[1] The Contents-amd64.gz file is empty for the release pocket in 19.10.

Thanks,
--
Brian Murray