Package: kdump-tools
Version: 1:1.6.1-1
Severity: normal
In 1.5.9-6, a facility was added to make /etc/default/grub.d/kdump-tools.cfg a
symlink, pointing to an appropriate architecture-specific config, with
ppc64el as the initial user. There are a couple of issues with this:
- It doesn't work on ppc64el today. Reason being that the postinst
uses the "arch" command to ID the architecture. That returns the
kernel arch name (ppc64*le*), not the Debian port name
(ppc64*el*), so the intended symlink is not created.
- This method requires that we install all of the arch-specific
configs on every arch, even though they aren't needed.
I wonder if we could simplify this by doing the default config file
selection at build time instead of installtime. That should still solve
preserve the behavior of dpkg only considering the file to be modified
if the user manually edited it.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.11.0-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages kdump-tools depends on:
ii bsdmainutils 9.0.12+nmu1
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.61
ii init-system-helpers 1.48
ii kexec-tools 1:2.0.14-1
ii lsb-base 9.20161125
ii makedumpfile 1:1.6.1-1
kdump-tools recommends no packages.
kdump-tools suggests no packages.
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/default/kdump-tools changed [not included]
-- debconf information:
* kdump-tools/use_kdump: false
