Bug Triage Project - WAS: Re: Dapper Flight 5 Installation Report

[Ming Hua]

On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 03:55:16AM +1100, Jamie Jones wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 17:06 +0100, John Nilsson wrote:
> > One possibility would be to have each package provide its own set of bug
> > report scripts and/or other bug reporting policies. The bug reporting
> > application would call these scripts and attach their output while
> > guiding the user through the bug submission.
> 
> That was possible with the reportbug tool, indeed I make use of it for
> my 3rd party .debs, but reportbug does not work with lp. Once I tell
> people about reportbug, they usually use it to send me bug reports, and
> it brings all the useful information with it thanks to my script, eg
> logs, cpu & opengl info. If wanted I could share my bash scripts, but
> they are trivial to make ( cat foo >> bar )
> 
> That functionality would be nice to have for Ubuntu packages as well.

Seconded.  I use reportbug scripts to collect package specific
information for the package I maintain in Debian as well.  I would love
to see an easy way for user to attach these information to their malone
bug report (reportbug is not a very new-user-friendly tool, after all).

Ming
2006.03.16