The wiki instruction about the lack of crash report need to be updated

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort]

Henrik Nilsen Omma wrote:
> Brian Murray wrote:
>> I have updated the Bug/Responses with something that tries to cover bugs
>> missing crash reports and those with ".crash" file attachments.  It also
>> contains both ways to report the crash.  Please let me know what you 
>> think and thanks for bringing this to my attention.
>>   
> 
> Thanks for adding this info. The procedure involves closing the existing 
> bug (which may have useful comments on it) and letting apport open a new 
> one, which seems a bit of a cludge.
> 
> Can we have apport save the output locally and ask the reporter to 
> attach the files? Tht would admittedly work better when we can add 
> multiple attachments to single comment as now we'll most likely get zip 
> files. Still, it seems the right thing to do.

That will mean no retraces, and no checks for duplicates from the retracer.

> 
> Perhaps the apport GUI should grow an option to let you enter an 
> existing bug number?

That sounds good as long as the retracer is changed to then look at these new
attachments and retrace the crash / check for duplicates.

Cheers,
Emilio

> 
> Henrik
> 
> 


-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: OpenPGP digital signature
Url : https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-bugsquad/attachments/20071202/522a9b66/attachment.pgp