[RFC] Enabling kerneloops in default install

[Amit Kucheria]

On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 1:04 AM, TJ <ubuntu at tjworld.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-09-05 at 11:29 +0300, Amit Kucheria wrote:
>>
>> Minus
>> -------
>> 1. Kerneloops does something that apport is already doing
>>     - apport sends it to LP, though. And the bug waits there until
>> someone decides to send it upstream.
>
> What about allowing apport to continue doing it alone on the user PC,
> and simply add a a module to Launchpad that forwards Kernel Oops using
> the same mechanism as Kerneloops?
>
> This would have the benefit of automatically linking an LP bug report
> with the upstream report and prevent any disjoint that could occur if LP
> bugs for Oops are entered manually.

That would be a good feature for LP in the future considering the
sheer number of bugs that are filed against the kernel. However, in
all probability, this feature won't make it to Intrepid.

Regards,
Amit