Desktop Team meeting, 2008-08-14

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 03:05:11PM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> == Automatic installation reports ==
> 
> mvo asked how useful are the apt filed installation failed reports?
> 
> Should we not file them against the failed package (e.g. gedit) but
> against a central virtual component (like install-failurs) because most
> likely the problem is not with gedit, but with e.g. scrollkeeper that is
> run in the gedit postinst? This way triaggers can pinpoint the problem
> and assign to the right packages.  I got some complaints that the apt
> bugreports clutter the buglists too much.

I'm curious about this, because I (as a tester) find this facility very
useful in reducing the time it takes to collect the relevant information,
check for duplicates and file a bug.

What is the clutter?  If it's duplicate bugs, apport could be more
aggressive/smarter about suppressing duplicates.  If it's bugs reported
against the wrong package, maybe we could improve the duplicate detection in
Launchpad.

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 - mdz