Automated bug comparisons

[Martin Pool]

On 3/28/07, Martin Pitt <martin.pitt at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> 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.

Yes, that seems like a good way to distinguish probable dupes.

-- 
Martin