Using Error Tracker data for SRUs

[Steve Langasek]

On Thu, Jun 30, 2022 at 02:03:43PM -0700, Brian Murray wrote:
> I was recently looking at an SRU[1] which fixes a crash which was
> reported about gnome-remote-desktop in the Ubuntu Error Tracker but the
> crash was actually in freerdp2. Subsequently, there isn't an easy to
> confirm that there are not crashes with the new version of the package
> because the problem page[2] in the Error Tracker only shows the
> gnome-remote-desktop version of the package.

> However, the information is in the Error Tracker as gnome-remote-desktop
> depends on libfreerdp2-2 and apport collects version information about a
> package's dependencies. While this information isn't yet easily
> accessible I was able to write a database query to find the versions of
> libfreerdp2-2 installed and confirm that the version of the package in
> -proposed didn't appear in any of the crashes.

> I mention it as having the database queried may be useful for
> verification of other SRUs. So let me know if you could use some
> more data.

Thanks for bringing this to folks' attention.

Just spitballing, would it make sense to multiply bucket each crash not only
on the application, but for each library that appears in the stack trace,
with a possible exception of glibc?  For source packages that build both
executables and libraries that are consumed by other source packages this
could dramatically increase the error reporting, drowning out crash reports
on the apps; but maybe this isn't a significant concern?

Maybe this is already what you had in mind for a long-term solution!

-- 
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
Ubuntu Developer                                   https://www.debian.org/
slangasek at ubuntu.com                                     vorlon at debian.org
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