Apport support

Aaron Bentley aaron.bentley at utoronto.ca
Wed Nov 14 15:06:24 GMT 2007


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John Arbash Meinel wrote:
> I know in the past we had a patch which used apport if it was available.

> I was thinking about it, and I would like to see us bring it back if we could
> do it in a reasonable way.

To me, "a reasonable way" means being able to turn it off completely.
In fact, I would turn it off for all development versions.

> I know Martin was thinking about changing the
> traceback to point people at the bug tracker rather than at the mailing list.
> Apport is also designed to help decrease the number of duplicate bugs that you get.
> 
> I don't remember the details, though.

IIRC, it made it hard to debug problems.  And it could lead to failures
in apport itself, which further obscured the issues.

Aaron
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