Best practice for reporting bugs

[Martin Pitt]

Lars Wirzenius [2009-03-25 14:13 +0200]:
> I tend to turn off apport, because it pops up every time one of my own
> programs-under-development crashes, and that makes my laptop unusable
> for up to about a minute (more, if I'm running with an encrypted disk).

If you are talking about packaged programs, then it's a hard problem,
since apport needs to invoke apt and dpkg to figure out that it's not
an Ubuntu package.

If you are really talking about apport getting fired when you develop
and run software from your home directory (as probably almost all
developers do), then this is indeed a bug, and should be reported. The
code to detect those cases is pretty robust, though.

Martin
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