RFC: LP improvements

[Mackenzie Morgan]

The apport-gtk also seems to send very little actual debugging information,
probably because Ubuntu's default is 0 for coredumps.  I set mine to
unlimited and noticed that I get somewhat useful tracebacks when programs
crash now.

On 9/28/07, Arne Goetje <arne at ubuntu.com> wrote:
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> Hi list,
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> I'm not sure if this issue has been raised already...
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> I find it extremely difficult to figure out against which package
> version, architecture and distribution release a particular bug has been
> filed, as most users omit this vital information when they report bugs
> via the LP webinterface...
>
> Since apport fills in this information like this automatically:
>
> - ------------------------------
> ProblemType: Crash
> Architecture: i386
> Date: Thu Apr 5 16:53:49 2007
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
> ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/qt-language-selector
> InterpreterPath: /rofs/usr/bin/python2.5
> Package: language-selector-qt 0.2.5
> PackageArchitecture: all
> ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/qt-language-selector --mode install
> ProcCwd: /home/ubuntu
> ProcEnviron:
>
> PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
> LANG=da_DK.UTF-8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/qt-language-selector', '--mode', 'install']
> SourcePackage: language-selector
> Uname: Linux ubuntu 2.6.20-12-generic #2 SMP Wed Mar 21 20:55:46 UTC
> 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
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>
> I'd like to suggest:
> 1. to add mandatory fields on the bug report form for
>   * Architecture (drop down)
>   * DistroRelease (drop down)
>   * Package Version (need to fill in manually)
> 2. to collect the bug reporting time and add it to the bug report
> automatically
> 3. to add additional columns for Architecture, DistroRelease and
> Package Version in the bug overview screen.
>
> For hardy I suggest developing a better GUI to put on the desktop and
> let users comfortably report bugs. The current apport-gtk package seems
> only to become active when a crash occurs.
>
> Cheers
> Arne
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