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

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 09:54:36AM +0100, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Bryce Harrington [2007-02-13 12:34 -0800]:
> > 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.  ;-)
> 
> BTW, the current name for it is 'ubuntu-bug'. Having Ubuntu in the
> name is needed because it currently files bugs against Ubuntu in
> Malone (not other distributions).

Since we have a simple (and LSB standardized) way to look up the name of the
distribution, it should be straightforward to generalize this to work for
all distributions which use Launchpad.  That way, derivation in Launchpad
allows bug reporting to "just work".

-- 
 - mdz