Automated bug comparisons

[Martin Pitt]

Hi,

Martin Pool [2007-03-28 19:23 +1000]:
> Well, for me as a somewhat experienced developer it's far from clear
> that every occurrence of "DodgyApp crashed with sigsegv" is the same
> bug.  So I've been saying "not a dupe" by default.

Depends. In your case it shouldn't be a default dupe, but e. g. Python
crashes look like 'DodgyApp crashed with OSError in Bar.baz()'. If a
SIGSEGV crash has a reasonable stack trace, the topmost function will
be in the subject as well, and then it is most likely a duplicate.

Martin

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