Error tracker and bugs in libraries

[Benjamin Drung]

Am Donnerstag, den 06.12.2012, 11:52 +0000 schrieb Dmitrijs Ledkovs:
> On 6 December 2012 00:44, Benjamin Drung <bdrung at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > https://errors.ubuntu.com/ lists a vlc crash on rank 90. This crash is
> > probably caused by the underlying libproxy library. Can the error
> > tracker track the libproxy versions instead of the vlc-nox versions?
> >
> 
> Currently we cannot bucket / distinguish crashes between the
> application or the shared library.
> So it's a known issue, but hard to diagnose the underlying problem. It
> could be the app is not using the api correctly / not handling error
> codes or it could be a crashy library.

If automation fails, let the developer help. It would be nice to allow
the developer specify one (or more) libraries to track. Ultimately, the
crash can be caused by different bugs in different binary packages and
fixes for these bugs can depend on each other.

-- 
Benjamin Drung
Debian & Ubuntu Developer