apport-crash bugs without a package

[Brian Murray]

On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 11:18:29AM +0200, Markus Korn wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 12:17 AM, Brian Murray <brian at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > Recently the apport-retracer was modified[0] to assign apport-crash bug
> > reports without a package to the package for the application that
> > crashed as a part of the retracing process.  I believe most of these
> > bugs ended up without a package because the reporter was removing them
> > as they reported them, however the retracer will now fix a mistake like
> > that.  So if we could review the current list of apport-crash bugs
> > without a package[1] that'd be helpful.  Additionally, I promise this
> > pile of bugs won't grow.  Well, it really shouldn't....
> >
> > [0] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apport/+bug/269045
> > [1] http://tinyurl.com/5yhs6c
> >
> 
> Hi,
> I worked a bit on this list this morning, and might continue if noone
> else does later today.
> There are a few bugs on the list where I'm not sure what to do:
>    * https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/209521
>    * https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/222665
>    * https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/223890
>    * https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/225874
> they were all filed against twisted, but the target was removed with a
> comment like "not a bug in twisted", without any alternative package.

I wonder if apport could be smarter about how it deals with crash
reports involving twisted by either raising an error if it the crash is
not in an Ubuntu package or filing it against the correct package.

-- 
Brian Murray                                                 @ubuntu.com
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