[Bug 1064475] [NEW] crash version is outdated. Needs to import Debian version of the package

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You have been subscribed to a public bug by Stefan Bader (stefan-bader-canonical):

Sid's version of crash is at 6.0.6 and upstream is at 6.1.0. Ubuntu
version should at least follow Sid's version

SRU Justification (for Quantal and Precise):

Impact: With the current crash utility in Quantal (and Precise) it is
impossible to look at dumps from recent kernels (3.5+). So Quantal
cannot be used to examine dumps created in Quantal and with the rolling
backport kernels we will have the same problem in Precise (12.04.2).
Beside that it should be possible to use the latest LTS to work on newer
dumps (IMO). Another feature of this latest release is the ability to
work on dumps of PV guests produced by Xen.

Fix: Instead of trying to pick individual patches it is much simpler to
push the the 6.1.0 release back into older releases. It was compiled and
tested in Precise at least while working on bug reports that involved
dumps and required a recent version of crash.

Testcase:
- Load and examine a dump produced from a 3.5+ kernel
- Load and examine a dump of a PV Xen guest.

** Affects: crash (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Medium
     Assignee: Stefan Bader (stefan-bader-canonical)
         Status: In Progress


** Tags: patch
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crash version is outdated. Needs to import Debian version of the package
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1064475
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