Introducing automatic crash reporting in Edgy

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 09:42:00PM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Matt Zimmerman [2006-08-14 10:03 -0700]:
> > Does apport verify this?
> 
> gdb does; the gnu debuglink in ELF files stores a CRC checksum which
> has to match for gdb to accept the debug symbols.

Oh, good.  It will be interesting to see how often this "just works".
It will also be a great litmus test to ensure that the user truly is running
the current code.

> > Probably the best we could do would be to have Firefox use the same GNOME
> > facility used to notify the user of activity in xchat-gnome, gaim, etc. so
> > that the task bar flashes.
> 
> That would indeed be nice.

Does anyone know how much work this is, or whether it would add
objectionable dependencies for other derivatives?

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 - mdz