[MERGE] use apport to get richer detail in bug reports.

[Martin Pool]

On 17 Nov 2006, Aaron Bentley <aaron.bentley at utoronto.ca> wrote:
> 
> Robert Collins wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-11-08 at 15:22 +1100, Martin Pool wrote:
> > 
> >> Ok, +1.
> > 
> > Thanks. If its ok as-is, I'll merge it with a bug report to do more
> > later - mid-sprint is not a good time for extensive hacking.
> 
> This patch breaks the Derror test case.  I guess PQM doesn't have apport
> installed.  Could you please fix it sooner rather than later?

Yes, that's probably it.

> By the way, this seems like a rather developer-hostile patch.  I *want*
> to see the traceback and this is making it more difficult to see.

Yes me too.  I saw you wanted to just revert it untill it was fixed,
which would be ok.

Here are some things we could do:

 * have a clear developer mode, where tracebacks are always shown
   without trimmings -- might be bad if the behaviour diverges too much
   though

 * keep the message but make it small enough that it's not a burden, say
   two lines -- would that be ok?

 * always write a file even if we don't have apport, just with different 
   content -- I think Robert agreed in principle

-- 
Martin