SRUs for typo fixes in descriptions

[Brian Murray]

On Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 07:28:24PM +0200, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> On jeu., 2011-08-04 at 07:36 -0700, Brian Murray wrote:
> > This should also be modified to include:
> > 
> >  * ... Apport package hook additions 
> 
> Could be not? Or could we move those out of the software binaries? One
> complain we often get in reviews and online comments is the new of
> updates showing up in update-manager on stable ubuntu versions. It's
> quite annoying to download a non trivial amount of binaries just because
> there was a one line update in a debug hook.
> 
> Do you have datas that showing that most of the bugs are coming from
> stable versions? I would rather think that most of the useful technical
> feedback is coming from unstable versions (we do turn apport off on
> stable series as well), stable user tend to report feedback (things they
> like or not, design issues, etc) rather than bugs than benefit from
> apport informations usually.

As Bryce mentioned some apport package hooks gather information to
determine whether or not the reporter has created a problem for
themselves.  For example the xorg package hooks prevents bug reporting
in multiple situations and I've added some logic to the ubiquity package
hook to also prevent bugs from being filed.  While I agree downloading a
whole updated package for an apport hook is annoying I think it can be
valuable - especially if reduces the amount of bug ping-pong or prevents
bug reporting.

With regards to the volume of bug reports - since Maverick has been
released on 2010-10-10 there have been 8572 bugs reported using apport.
The same number for Lucid since 2010-04-29 is 17,949.  I'd tell you the
number for Natty but Launchpad times out.  However, with the two data
points we have I think there are enough bugs reported about stable
releases using apport to justify an SRU for an updated package hook in
most situations.

--
Brian Murray
Ubuntu Bug Master
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