Best practice for reporting bugs

Mackenzie Morgan macoafi at gmail.com
Wed Apr 1 18:27:14 BST 2009


On Wednesday 01 April 2009 12:20:44 pm (``-_-´´) -- BUGabundo wrote:
> Olá Mackenzie e a todos.
> 
> On Tuesday 31 March 2009 16:46:51 Mackenzie Morgan wrote:
> > On Monday 30 March 2009 6:48:44 pm (``-_-´´) -- BUGabundo wrote:
> > > Am I making such an hard question, or using the wrong example?
> > 
> > People and teams can have PPAs.  Neither have BTS.  Why are we discussing 
this 
> > here?  This ought to be on launchpad-users, since it's LP that doesn't 
have 
> > Malone for anything but distributions and projects.
> 
> This is dragging much more then I wished it too.
> Let me give a couple of examples:
> Gwibber and Medibuntu packages.
> 
> Pressing on Help-> Report a Problem on Gwibber (from a PPA) will lead me to 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/gwibber/+filebug
> Medibuntu bumps Archive Packages apps, and requests for bugs to be filed on 
their LP bug BTS (https://bugs.launchpad.net/medibuntu/+filebug)
> 
> So if apport (remember this was where I started my interaction with this 
thread) is so smart about packages, why not report to the proper BTS instead 
of failing with has it does with some packages?

Because it *should* fail on packages for which there is no BTS.  PPA packages 
have no BTS. Thus....

-- 
Mackenzie Morgan
http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com
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