apport 0.9 source package in Ubuntu

Changelog

apport (0.9) edgy; urgency=low

  * apport: Call objcopy to throw out READONLY/CODE sections from the core
    dump, which drastically reduces its (uncompressed) size (factor 2 to 10).
    This has little effect on the bzip2'ed core dump, though.
  * apport:
    - Support an optional third command line argument which specifies the
      location of a core dump.
    - If a core dump is given, call gdb on the core dump instead of the
      crashed process. We cannot attach to the latter if we are called by the
      kernel (since the crashed process is in uninterruptible kernel sleep).
    - If no core dump is given, do not attempt to do anything gdb related.
    - This matches the future behaviour of the kernel crash dump helper while
      remaining compatible to the previous call semantics.
  * Add preloadlib/{Makefile,libapport.c}: LD_PRELOADable library which
    emulates the future kernel behaviour. This is ONLY for testing and
    development purposes. It uses unsafe temporary file handling and thus must
    not be used on production boxes!
  * Ship preloadlib/* as examples in package 'apport' for people who want to
    play with it until the new kernel arrives.
  * Add preloadlib/README: Explain how to use the preload library.

 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden>   Wed,  9 Aug 2006 12:12:20 +0200