search_bug_patterns seems to use bug's title not apport title in description

[Brian Murray]

Binary package hint: apport

I was trying to write a bug pattern for LP: #506050 and wanted to match on the title. If I use the following key test-local (on karmic) fails.

<re key="Title">software-center crashed with TypeError: can't convert return value to desired type</re>

However, if I use:

<re key="Title">wicd</re>

the bug pattern matches.

It seems to me that since the bug's title / summary is editable it'd make more sense for apport to search the "Title: " line in the description rather than the bug's title / summary.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Perhaps we should special-case that and save that in a new field "OriginalTitle"? Would that work for you?

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Yes, exposing "OriginalTitle" for pattern matching would be a good solution.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package apport - 1.13-0ubuntu3

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apport (1.13-0ubuntu3) lucid; urgency=low

  * Merge fixes from trunk:
    - Update parse-segv to handle gdb 7.1 output.
    - Enhance test suite to work with gdb 7.1 as well, and catch future outputs.
    - unkillable_shutdown: Add list of running processes, blacklisted pids,
      and "initctl list" to report. (LP: #537262)
    - launchpad.py: Preserve the bug title written to the description by
      apport as OriginalTitle for pattern matching. Thanks to Brian Murray!
      (LP: #511310)
 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:55:47 +0100