Apport should add 'need-arch-retrace' to the reports

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort]

Binary package hint: apport

This will help a lot, because now triagers have to manually add that tag, to get a retrace.

Apport should check whether the report has a coredump, and if so, whether the retrace would be useful (i.e. c / c++ reports), and if that's the case, automatically create the report with the appropriate tag (i386, amd64, ppc).

Regards
Emilio

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Of course this was the grand plan. This just needs some support from Malone which is not yet there.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

I'll set the tag accordingly in the apport blob, but Malone needs to actually support this:

  Tags: need-i386-retrace

(similar for other architectures). This will be added to the MIME prefix.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

 apport (0.71) feisty; urgency=low
 .
   * cli/apport-cli, qt4/apport-qt: Fix bad grammar 'some minutes'.
     (LP: #95296)
   * problem_report.py, write_mime(): Add optional 'preamble' parameter. Add
     test case.
   * apport/ui.py, upload_launchpad_blob(): Set need-$ARCH-retrace tag in MIME
     preamble. Bump p-problem-report dependency. (LP: #94790)
   * bin/apport-retrace: In verbose mode, display the path of currently
     extracting deb.
   * bin/apport-retrace: Do not fall over errors of dpkg -x (which happens e.
     g. on udev, where it cannot unpack /dev, since this is a symlink to the
     real /dev). Merely print out a warning about it.
   * apport/ui.py, run_report_bug(): Ignore ENOENT from add_proc_info(). This
     happens if the user closes the application prematurely, so that /proc/pid
     does not exist any more. Add test case. (LP: #95954)
   * backends/packaging-dpkg.py, get_modified_files(): Ignore lines in .md5sums
     files which contain a NUL byte. This Should Not Happen™, but nevertheless
     did. (LP: #96050)
   * apport/ui.py, doc/package-hooks.txt: Check for a field
     "UnreportableReason: <text>" and display an information box that the
     current crash cannot be reported because of <text>. Add test case.
     Document the new field.
   * apport/ui.py: Check package origin, compare it to DistroRelease:, and
     report crash as unreportable if they do not match. This particularly saves
     the user from uploading large reports for e. g. opera crashes, and avoids
     filing Ubuntu bugs from Debian installations. (LP: #75513)

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

The Malone part of this depends on bug 92456.