Automated bug comparisons

[Duncan Lithgow]

On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 19:23 +1000, Martin Pool wrote:
> On 3/28/07, Martin Pitt <martin.pitt at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > Right. However, it is by far not insisting enough, we still get lots
> > and lots of duplicate crashers with exactly the same title. I talked
> > about this with Bjorn already, if the title matches exactly, there
> > should be something big red flashy 'YES, WE KNOW IT ALREADY' :)
> 
> 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.
I almost never mark my own bugs from apport as duplicates. I'm not going
to read all the attached files to see if the relevant bits are the same
- that a job for a computer! I always find what I think is a duplicate
and add a comment to my bug that it's probably a duplicate of #nnnnnn.

That kind of thing would be a good place to start for automated bug
comparison.

Duncan
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