bughelper packaging

[Daniel Holbach]

Hello everybody,

I just made the bughelper ready to be packaged. It now uses distutils,
but you can still use it by checking it out and running it locally. It's
all in ~dholbach/bughelper/bughelper.dev and before I upload it as a
package, I suggest we think a bit about how the info files could look
like.

Right now they merely list strings which are looked for when reading the
bug. But I can think of a number of use cases where this does not fit
the needs:
      * bug contains 'foo' AND 'bar'
      * bug contains 'foo' AND NOT 'bar'
      * sourcepackage is '...' and contains 'foo'
      * integration of pitti's bug patterns (used by apport):
        http://people.ubuntu.com/~pitti/bugpatterns/
      * we need arbitrary messages, we don't just want to list the
        strings we just found

Also I'd like to add
      * general triaging 'clues' about packages
      * http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Responses to the bughelper

Of course the picture until now is a bit incoherent, but I think the way
to go is XML, because it's structured and easily writable. Once it's in,
we should have a wiki page explaining how to add information to the
bughelper.

Have a nice day,
 Daniel

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