Bugzilla versus ubuntu-bug: Why are there necessary 2 programs?

[Detlef Lechner]

On Sat, 2011-01-22 at 10:52 -0600, C de-Avillez wrote:

> Usually this option is unset (but I did not look very carefully at
> the desktop flavour on Maverick): upstream (I *guess* you are
> talking about Gnome, but this apply to all upstreams, except KDE)
> would rather have bugs reported *on* the distribution and, after
> weeding out distro-related problems, upstreamed.
> 
> OTOH, you might be talking about KDE -- in other words, *K*Ubuntu.
> The Kubuntu flavour has a different requirement: all crashers are to
> be reported directly upstream. In this case, yes, you will need the
> debug symbols packages also installed.
> 
> > Why have the Ubuntu maintainers provided this mechanism in addition to
> > the ubuntu-bug mechanism? Both mechanisms seem to cover almost the same
> > task. What is the most important difference between the two mechanisms?
> 
> The Ubuntu maintainers do not provide this mechanism -- bug-buddy is
> usually disabled. The Kubuntu maintainers do.

Thank you.
Detlef
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