edge - Duplicates ,security and upstream

[shirish]

On 7/12/07, Christian Robottom Reis <kiko at async.com.br> wrote:
>
> (Brian, a query for you below:)
>
> On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 08:38:01AM +0530, shirish wrote:
> >       While if it finds duplicates its nice I did have a duplicate
> > thing in either Bug 12510 or Bug 124947 (don't remember which) but one
> > of which had a duplicate bug or so it said. Now the difference is/was
> > that the bug that I had posted was using apport hence was automated
> > while the other guy had posted his experience. While it sounded
> > similar was not able to say whether its same or not & obviously all
> > the data collected by apport would have be better.
>
> I'm not sure what you are saying here. Are we showing you potential
> duplicates we shouldn't, or is the problem that you are unable to decide
> whether one of those bugs is a duplicate or not?

      I'm unable to decide if one of the bugs is duplicate of other
bugs. For e.g.
if apport reports some bug it would have some syntax & stuff which
makes it easier for people to decide .

[Bug 124947] file-roller crashed with SIGSEGV in strlen()

now if somebody reports through apport & the same string is there

file-roller crashed with SIGSEGV in strlen() then its the same bug
(most probably)
but if it shows something like

' I was deleting a file when it crashed' or something which is similar
but a user can't say for sure whether its a duplicate or a different
bug altogether. ATleast not by the heading.


> >       Another query I have is what happens when there is a duplicate
> > of the bug one wants to file & the original is marked private (not yet
> > released to public).  So would the system show the private bug or
> > would it allow to post the duplicate also?
>
> Unfortunately, no. Private bugs aren't well-handled in this situation,
> and that's an unfortunate consequence of how apport works right now;
> we're working to provide a better forum for crashes, though.

Ah ok, btw apport fails for me when I try to report bugs over 4 MiB,
giving me an error message like :-

Could not upload report data to crash database:

HTTP Error 500: Internal Server Error

or sometimes HTTP Error 502: Bad Gateway . Dunno the reason for it. as
there is no other net activity after than apport. And after apport
gives me the error if I try to browse the net or do any other net
activity , chatting, torrenting etc. they all work. Is there some way
to find some more info. why it didn't do a successful upload?

> >         Lastly, I saw this
> > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LucasNussbaum/UsertaggingBugsReportedToDebian
> > while these are nice for developers who are able to send patches etc.
> > (no programming skills here) what for guys like me who sometimes comes
> > to know that some of the packages/apps. are synced or merged from
> > debian so should we users also put some tags or what is advisable. If
> > there is some wiki page which explains that then that should be linked
> > to the wiki page mentioned above.
>
> This is an Ubuntu-specific issue, so I'm copying Brian here to give you
> some advice.
> --
> Christian Robottom Reis | http://async.com.br/~kiko/ | [+55 16] 3376 0125
>

Thank you for your time Christian
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          Shirish Agarwal
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