apport-collect should submit initial data as well as hook data
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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apport (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Martin Pitt |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: apport
I don't know if you want to make this the default but it should at least be a command line option to have the initial data that apport usually reports about bugs to be sent by apport-collect (bug number). That information isn't in package specific hooks at least afaik, and currently doesn't get sent by apport-collect. My primary use case for apport-collect would be users to submit all the data below since they probably reported the bug using the web interface which doesn't include that data.
Eg this kind of stuff:
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
NonfreeKernelMo
Package: openoffice.org-core 1:3.0.1~
ProcEnviron:
PATH=/
LANG=en_IE.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: openoffice.org
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-11-generic i686
UnreportableReason: This is not a genuine Ubuntu package
Indeed, it should do that. We can't collect process specific data (Proc*), but we can, and should, collect system information, package/ dependencies versions, etc.