Debian Bug report logs - #994737
find-dbgsym-packages: include package version

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From: Nicholas Brown <[email protected]>

To: [email protected]

Subject: find-dbgsym-packages: include package version

Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2021 11:00:51 +0100

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Package: debian-goodies
Version: 0.87

Currently find-dbgsym-packages returns a list of -dbgsym packages, but
those do not include versions constraint, so if that list is installed it
may result in updates being installed (including of dependencies) which
will likely not be of any use to decode cores generated from the previous
installed version.

Consider something like:

$ app-dbgsym libfoo1-dbgsym /var/crash/1000/app.core
app-dbgsym libfoo1-dbgsym

$ apt install app-dbgsym libfoo1-dbgsym
The following NEW packages will be installed:
app-dbgsym libfoo1-dbgsym
The following packages will be upgraded:
app libfoo1

$ apt-cache policy app app-dbgsym libfoo1 libfoo1-dbgsym
app:
  Installed: 1.0.1-1
  Candidate: 1.0.3-1
app-dbgsym:
  Installed: 1.0.1-1
  Candidate: 1.0.3-1
libfoo1
  Installed: 1.2.3-1
  Candidate: 1.2.9-2
libfoo1-dbgsym
  Installed: 1.2.3-1
  Candidate: 1.2.9-2

To be able to decode a corefile it would be preferable that packages were
not upgraded, so it would be useful if the output of find-dbgsym-packages
included the current version information. Something like:

$ app-dbgsym libfoo1-dbgsym /var/crash/1000/app.core
app-dbgsym=1.0.1-1 libfoo1-dbgsym=1.2.3-1

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