alsa apport hook (Re: It is 2009 and I am still hearing my pc speaker)

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 12:19:01PM -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 07:48:56PM +0100, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > Indeed, I realize these packages don't actually contain the drivers we ship,
> > though I thought it made more sense to ship the hook with alsa-base than
> > in the kernel package.  It's easier to change there, and it can still be
> > used by any package.
> > 
> > Do you think that all kernel bugs should include the ALSA info as well?  If
> > so, that's easy to add to the kernel package hook.  If not, I think
> > apport-collect -p alsa-base is probably the best we can do for now, since we
> > don't know which bugs are ALSA-related until they get reviewed by a human.
> > 
> > There's some talk of adding more interactivity to ubuntu-bug in Karmic, so
> > we could ask enough questions to know what information to attach.
> 
> It might be slick to have a means to file a bug based on "symptom".
> 
>  ubuntu-bug -s sound
>  ubuntu-bug -s keyboard
>  ubuntu-bug -p xorg -s resolution
> 
> I've noticed with using apport with X, that there is a stronger
> correlation between files I want and the generic symptom, then there is
> between them and the source package.  E.g., both "X crash" and "Big
> fonts" are usually xorg-server bugs, however I need completely different
> sets of files for each case.
> 
> I imagine the situation is probably even more extreme with the kernel.
> 
> Currently, I just pile everything I might possibly want into the generic
> xorg package hook.  Being able to file based on symptom might enable
> being more precise in what is collected, and save some bandwidth.

This is something which has come up repeatedly over the past couple of
years, but has never quite made it to the top of the pile (there should be
some blueprints here and there).  Most recently, I've heard talk of
integrating checkbox and apport to make use of the diagnostics and
question/answer facility to guide bug filing.

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 - mdz