virtual package and conflicts for core dump handlers?

Ritesh Raj Sarraf rrs at researchut.com
Wed Nov 4 12:00:11 GMT 2015


On Wed, 2015-11-04 at 19:01 +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm maintaining corekeeper, which is a simple package for storing
> core
> dumps in a username-based directory tree on disk. It uses a Linux
> core_pattern to run a script to securely store the dumps.
> 
> I noticed that apport also provides a core dump handler and that
> systemd will soon also provide a separate package containing one:
> 
> https://bugs.debian.org/744964
> 
> Since Linux can only have one core dump handler at a time I wonder if
> we should define a virtual package for core dump handlers and have
> each
> of them provide that and conflict with it.
> 
> I propose core-dump-handler as the virtual package.

Should work for apport. Once the final name is finalized, I'll add the
the relation into the package.


-- 
Ritesh Raj Sarraf
RESEARCHUT - http://www.researchut.com
"Necessity is the mother of invention."

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