alsa apport hook (Re: It is 2009 and I am still hearing my pc speaker)

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 01:58:24PM -0400, Daniel Chen wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 3:55 AM, Scott Ritchie <scott at open-vote.org> wrote:
> > Something is clearly wrong.  It was bad enough that this was a problem
> > in Intrepid, but it's still happening in Jaunty as well.
> 
> Hooray, another regression.
> 
> I am going to begin ignoring audio bug reports that do not have
> alsa-info.sh output attached. Particularly if the symptoms can be
> reproduced by reverting to an older kernel.

FYI, some time ago I added an apport hookutils function attach_alsa() which
is very similar to alsa-info.sh but for apport.  This means that:

- If a user reports the bug using, e.g. "ubuntu-bug alsa-base", it will
  automatically include this information

- For an existing bug report on alsa-base, you can ask the user to run
  "apport-collect <bug number>" and it will attach the information

- For an existing bug report on some other package, you can ask the user to
  run "apport-collect -p alsa-base <bug number>" with similar results

If there are packages other than alsa-driver where it's appropriate to
include this information by default, it's very easy to add it to the apport
hook (one line).

-- 
 - mdz