Comment 3 for bug 1775195

This bug was fixed in the package sosreport - 3.6-1
Sponsored for Eric Desrochers (slashd)

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sosreport (3.6-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New 3.6 upstream release.
    major enhancements to core features and existing plugins:

    - better package manager version information
    - policy support for detecting package managed files
    - fixed exit status propagation
    - deprecated optparse replaced with argparse
    - simplified and improved SoSOptions interface
    - better error handling during interactive prompting
    - allow journal collection by identifier
    - allow collection of journal message catalogs
    - support for collecting binary file data
    - more fine-grained system plugins (date etc.)
    - policy defined report file name patterns
       - more human-readable report file names by default
    - increased default log size (25MiB vs. 10MiB)
    - support for forbidden path lists and forbid logging
    - support for enabling plugins by kernel module name
    - support for enabling plugins by executable name
    - support for collecting eBPF (bpftool) data
    - support for device information via add_udev_info()
    - support for detecting and reporting unpackaged binaries
    - optional collection of the RPMDB
    - improved archive compression level and multithreading
    - default log size increased from 10MiB to 25MiB
    - improved debug logging and ENOSPC handling
    - major updates to the IPA plugin
    - major updates to the Docker plugin
    - string decoding fixes
    - DNF and Yum module support
    - OpenShift 3.10 support
    - Python3 fixes

  Further release information and tarballs are available at:
    https://github.com/sosreport/sos/releases/tag/3.6

  * Debian specific modifications :
    - Omit Python2 only unittests
    - Avoid distutils in lstopo plugin

  * Former debian modifications now fixed upstream:
    - d/p/0002-reset-to-expected-variable-order-for-packagemanager.patch:
    - d/p/0003-fix-name-containers-is-not-defined.patch:
    - Fix-string-decoding-for-debug-log-output.patch

 -- Louis Bouchard <email address hidden> Mon, 24 Sep 2018 09:24:07 +0000

sosreport (3.5-1ubuntu4) cosmic; urgency=medium

  * d/p/Fix-string-decoding-for-debug-log-output.patch:
    Fix bug in _collect_strings that causes error trying to str.decode()
    (LP: #1761442)

 -- Dan Streetman <email address hidden> Tue, 05 Jun 2018 10:52:56 -0400

sosreport (3.5-1ubuntu3) bionic; urgency=medium

  * Avoid using distutils during runtime.

 -- Matthias Klose <email address hidden> Thu, 12 Apr 2018 10:48:13 +0200

sosreport (3.5-1ubuntu2) bionic; urgency=medium

  * d/p/0003-fix-name-containers-is-not-defined.patch:
    "containers" is an unknown variable, "insp" is the correct one.

 -- Eric Desrochers <email address hidden> Mon, 15 Jan 2018 18:39:54 -0500

sosreport (3.5-1ubuntu1) bionic; urgency=medium

  * d/p/0002-reset-to-expected-variable-order-for-packagemanager.patch:
    Fixing severe regression where many "packages = <PKG_NAME>" lines are no
    longer working in Debian/Ubuntu. Preventing automatic package detection.

 -- Eric Desrochers <email address hidden> Tue, 05 Dec 2017 17:04:34 +0000