[Bug 1064475] Re: crash version is outdated.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

[Dmitry Shachnev]

The attached debdiffs are unsuitable for SRUs because there are some
non-bugfix changes, just to name a few:

* Add support for reading compressed kdump dumpfiles that were compressed by the snappy compressor.
* Introduction of a new "tree" command that can be used to dump the the addresses of all data structure entries in a red-black tree or a radix tree.
* Created a new "rd -r <outputfile>" option that copies raw data from memory to an output file.

Please consider using -backports instead. If you really want to do a
SRU, you'll have to manually pick needed fixes and verify each one
individually. It would be also good if you merged your fixes and one in
bug 251288.

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Title:
  crash version is outdated. Needs to import Debian version of the
  package

Status in “crash” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “crash” source package in Precise:
  In Progress
Status in “crash” source package in Quantal:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  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.

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