[apport-retrace] would be nice to have an option to specify a package to install

Bug #90077 reported by Sebastien Bacher
2
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
apport (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Martin Pitt

Bug Description

Binary package hint: apport

That would be useful to retrace bugs when the crash doesn't happen to the package code nor to a Depends, multimedia crashes are often due to extra gstreamer plugins for example

Martin Pitt (pitti)
Changed in apport:
assignee: nobody → pitti
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: Unconfirmed → In Progress
Martin Pitt (pitti)
Changed in apport:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
Revision history for this message
Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

 apport (0.64) feisty; urgency=low
 .
   * bin/apport-chroot: Add 'login' command.
   * bin/apport-chroot: Install apport-retrace into a newly created chroot.
   * Add debian/local/setup-apport-retracer: Script to install local versions
     of apport, debootstrap, fake{,ch}root libraries, and a feisty apport
     fakechroot. This works OOTB on ronne's amd64 and i386 feisty chroots. The
     script is not shipped in any package yet, but it's convenient to ship it
     in revision control and in the source.
   * apport/report.py, _check_interpreted(): When calling an interpreter with a
     script name as argument, set ExecutablePath to the script instead of the
     interpreter. Add test case. (LP: #88794)
   * apport/report.py, search_bug_patterns(): Catch all exceptions from
     urlopen(), not just IOError. Sometimes this fails with funnier errors.
     (LP: #89589)
   * bin/apport-retrace: Give some additional explanation when installing
     packages fails. (LP: #89916)
   * apport/fileutils.py, get_all_{system_,}reports(): Fix file access race
     condition. (LP: #89977)
   * bin/apport-retrace: Add option -p/--extra-package to install an additional
     package for retracing. May be specified multiple times. Document new
     option in man/apport-retrace.1. (LP: #90077)
   * bin/apport-chroot: Add a similar option -p/--extra-package and install
     those in the 'create' command and simply pass it to apport-retrace in the
     'retrace' command. (LP: #90077)
   * bin/apport-chroot: Add a -v/--verbose option.
   * bin/apport-retrace: Do not complain about missing ddebs for Arch: all
     packages.

Changed in apport:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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