Backtracing, Invalidated Bugs and Quality

[Alexander Sack]

On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 04:42:42PM +0200, Markus Hitter wrote:
> 
> Am 20.08.2008 um 11:42 schrieb Null Ack:
> 
> > I'm not convinced that the strategy of asking users to install
> > specialised debugging packages is the right way to go. I see a very
> > low hit rate with this working in practice.
> 
> How about getting this even more automated? Apport would have three  
> buttons:
> 
>   [ Abort ]       [ Submit Report only ]  [ Allow getting bug fixed ]
> 
> The third button would not only send the bug report, but replace (apt- 
> get) the standard package with a symbol-equipped equivalent as well.  
> Having a debug version of a package among standard packages hurts  
> only neglible and most users won't even notice.

I like this idea. Of course, the third option needs a better wording
and a way to educate the user about the additional bandwidth/disk
requirements.

 - Alexander