Public bug reported:

This is a special case of Bug 559345 somewhere between a question and a
request for better/more discoverable error message/documentation.

In apport, because thats what people encountering bugs are going to use.
In USN, because the one thing worse than no security notices is incorrect 
advice.
In the package changelog, because reverts are confusing enough already.

Proposed fix, among others:
Add two URLs to the apport error messages.
One to the relevant "https://changelogs.ubuntu.com/"; site which apt should 
still know, package in Relaase or not, which hopefully by then includes a note 
about a package rebuild to clarify the revert.
And another one to any relevant 
"https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/?details=package"; site, if you are able to 
keep the search URL stable long enough for that to reliably present a list of 
related USNs.

Background: `ubuntu-bug linux` will not let me report the kernel regression I 
ran into.. because the package went AWOL (linux-image-5.8.0-31-generic, 
linux-image-5.4.0-56-generic, .. as announced from 
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4658-1)
Since I might now have two tentatively non-reproducible versions, one 
reproducible in between and presumably one upcoming that re-introduces the 
potentially responsible security backports, bisecting will be much easier with 
some knowledge of the order of backports applied.

** Affects: apport (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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