Apport hooks (Re: The changing nature of bug reports)

[Martin Pitt]

Hi,

Bryce Harrington [2007-02-13 12:34 -0800]:
> > Short term I was thinking of some thing like a cli such as 
> > 
> > apport-bugreport firefox|thunderbird|....
> 
> I think this is a great idea, but one suggestion would be to choose a
> name which is extremely memorable, obvious, and easy to spell, so that
> it'll become second nature for users.  Like even just 'bugreport' might
> be good as the command name.  Think about explaining this command to
> your mother over the phone - the less you have to spell out, the easier
> it'll be for everyone's patience.  ;-)

Adding such a script has been on my TODO wishlist for quite a while
already. The script should detect the currently running UI (GTKish or
QTish), and invoke apport-gtk or apport-qt with -f and -p <package>.

However, right now this would file a new bug, which is helpful for a
lot of cases already, but not the one discussed in this thread. I will
talk to our Malone developer whether it's possible to extend the
current upload interface so that the blob can be attached to an
existing bug.

Martin

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