Package information on ELF objects
Programs crash. And when they do, they dump core, and we want to tell the user which package, including the version, caused the failure. This talk describes a compact JSON-based format that is embedded directly in the binaries as an ELF note. By embedding the this information directly in the binary object, package information is immediately available from a core dump, independently of any external packaging metadata. This is a cross-distro collaboration, with the eventual goal of having the same metadata automatically added by all distributions.