Comment 10 for bug 785425

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Louis Bouchard (louis) wrote :

@Richard: mostly because makedumpfile can be used in other contexts than from within the kdump realm. I've seen situation where it was used to reduce the size of an existing vmcore file.

A longer term solution might also be to go back to one single package with statically linked executable. I still have to discuss the issue with the Debian upstream maintainer.