Accepted apt 0.7.2ubuntu1 (source)

[Martin Pitt]

Hi,

Matt Zimmerman [2007-07-02  9:26 +0100]:
> On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 12:17:16AM +0200, Michael Bienia wrote:
> > Is it safe to do dupe checking only on the exit code from the postinst?
> > Different errors may make the postinst exit with exit code 1 and should
> > end in different bug reports.

Please note that apport currently only checks duplicates for signal
and python crashes, not for package and kernel crashes.

> That's a separate issue, though yes, that is something of a concern.  We
> really need the output in order to do this properly.

I agree, the error messages should really be C, with the frontends
translating them to the current locale on the fly.

> However, I believe the current dupe checking still relies on the user to
> confirm the duplicate, so at least there is room for correction

This was only done as an intermediate step until I hacked support for
duplicate marking into python-launchpad-bugs. The current retracer bot
actually duplicates crash bugs to the master one.

Martin

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