Please support systemd-coredump as core dump handler

[Benjamin Drung]

There can only be one system core dump handler on a Linux system and Apport is the Ubuntu default core dump handler. Besides Apport other tools offer coredump handler, in particular systemd-coredump. Due to Apport being installed on all Ubuntu system by default none of these alternate system can be installed.

There has been some user request for this integration to work. Proper integration between Apport and systemd-coredump would offer a better experience to developers who want to use systemd-coredump. systemd-coredump and coredumpctl provide more documentation and have more users upstream.

[Benjamin Drung (bdrung)]

Following systemd patch is needed for the integration: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/30778

[Benjamin Drung (bdrung)]

First step: support reading report from systemd-coredump: https://github.com/canonical/apport/pull/281

[Benjamin Drung (bdrung)]

Last bit: https://github.com/canonical/apport/pull/290

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package apport - 2.28.0-0ubuntu1

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apport (2.28.0-0ubuntu1) noble; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release
    - ui: remove skipping crashes that happened during logout (LP: #2043393)
    - setup: set minimum Java release to 8 (LP: #2045705)
    - support systemd-coredump as core dump handler (LP: #2048136)
  * Drop patches that were applied upstream
  * Address pylint complaints in patches and package hooks
  * Replace build dependency pkg-config by pkgconf
  * Suggest python3-zstandard in python3-problem-report for read support

 -- Benjamin Drung <email address hidden> Thu, 22 Feb 2024 15:20:00 +0100