Bugzilla versus ubuntu-bug: Why are there necessary 2 programs?

[C de-Avillez]

On 01/22/2011 09:55 AM, Detlef Lechner wrote:
> Hi,
> on my Maverick computer sometimes an error message appears saying I
> should direct to Bugzilla. Usually it asks me to install additional
> packages so that a more meaningful output will be produced.

Usually this option is unset (but I did not look very carefully at
the desktop flavour on Maverick): upstream (I *guess* you are
talking about Gnome, but this apply to all upstreams, except KDE)
would rather have bugs reported *on* the distribution and, after
weeding out distro-related problems, upstreamed.

OTOH, you might be talking about KDE -- in other words, *K*Ubuntu.
The Kubuntu flavour has a different requirement: all crashers are to
be reported directly upstream. In this case, yes, you will need the
debug symbols packages also installed.

> Why have the Ubuntu maintainers provided this mechanism in addition to
> the ubuntu-bug mechanism? Both mechanisms seem to cover almost the same
> task. What is the most important difference between the two mechanisms?

The Ubuntu maintainers do not provide this mechanism -- bug-buddy is
usually disabled. The Kubuntu maintainers do.

Cheers,

..C..

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