Backtracing, Invalidated Bugs and Quality

[Krzysztof Lichota]

2008/8/21 Christopher James Halse Rogers <chalserogers at gmail.com>:
> In what way is this different to the current Apport infrastructure?  My
> understanding is that the client sends in the crashdump and the apport
> retracers on launchpad replay it on a system with the debugging symbols
> installed.
>
> The retracable crashdumps are already nicely handled; how does the
> symbols server help in cases when the retracers would fail?

I don't know apport architecture, but the people in this thread were
discussing installation of debug packages on client to improve
backtraces, so I assumed they are needed for something...

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	Krzysztof Lichota