Printing Bugs

[Brian Murray]

In the Jaunty version of apport I've added a function,
attach_printing(), that will gather the same information as the
"printingbuginfo" script[1].  This function is currently utilized by the
package-hook for cups[2].  What this means is that if you submit a bug
report from Jaunty regarding cups via 'ubuntu-bug cups' a lot of
information relevant to debugging the report will be gathered
automatically.

Additionally, when we are triaging bug reports about cups from users
running Jaunty we can ask people to run 'apport-collect BUGNUMBER' and
the same information will be gathered.  This should make working with
cups bug reports significantly easier.

I spoke with Till Kamppeter about what other packages would benefit from
using this function and he indicated foomatic, ghostscript and printing
driver packages.  If anybody could help out adding package hooks, they'd
look almost the same as [2], for these packages that would be
outstanding.

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PrintingBugInfoScript
[2]
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~pitti/cups/debian-trunk/annotate/head%3A/debian/local//apport-hook.py

Thanks,
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Brian Murray                                                 @ubuntu.com
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