Best practice for reporting bugs

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 09:15:45AM -0700, Brian Murray wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 11:11:38AM +0100, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> > Matt Zimmerman <mdz at ubuntu.com> writes:
> > 
> > > Ah, it looks like this changed in Jaunty (apport 0.142).  It may not do the
> > > right thing in Intrepid and earlier.
> > 
> > Is it feasible to backport apport to hardy and intrepid?
> 
> I'd like to see this happen also as having apport-collect in previous
> releases would be quite valuable.  
> 
> It'd be even more useful if we could get apport package hooks that were
> added in Jaunty into previous releases too.  Is there some way this
> could be done without having to force people to download all of compiz
> just for the package hook?

Hooks can be added to the apport package itself (as several already are).
This would be a suitable means to get them added in backports.

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 - mdz