The need for apport hooks (was: Re: SRUs for typo fixes in descriptions)

[Martin Pitt]

Rick Spencer [2011-08-08  7:17 +0200]:
> Has this very thing not been proposed? We should discuss doing this for
> 12.04.

It was indeed, at the last rally. The idea was to move the hooks out
of the packages to a network location. This is already done with the
bug patterns, but as hooks are executable code, we need to spend some
effort on authenticating them and verifying them on the client side,
so it's not a trivial change.

Also, this breaks some use cases: Right now you can run apport-bug on
an offline/firewalled server, take the resulting report file to a
desktop and report it from there. If the hooks are only available from
the network, you can't report (sensible) bugs from offline computers
any more.

Martin

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