bug-buddy should propose installing dbg packages when available

[Vincent Untz]

There can be some useless stack traces when a crash occurs in a GNOME program.
It'd be great if bug-buddy could propose to install the dbg package before
getting the stack trace. This would be based on a new field in the .desktop file
for each program.

I'm opening the bug so the idea doesn't get lost. I'll probably try to make a
patch later...

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

nice idea, your patches are welcome as usual :)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Still not doing that but the new tool which is being worked ("apport") should get automatic debug backtraces and be used instead of bug-buddy

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Maybe we should switch apport to be used for all bugs. :-)

[Fernando Herrera (fherrera)]

I don't know why you do mail me about ubuntu switching to some
in-house solution.

I've been discussing the missing debug info with the GNOME community
for a while. We have talked a lot about it (blogs, mailing lists,
GNOME summit), and then plan was use airbag library on client side to
create minidumps and build a server infrastructure fetching
packages+debuginfo and using airbag to populate minidumps files with
nice rich debug information.

I've talked to the Ubuntu community several times to join efforts in a
cross-distribution/platform solution.

Salu2

On 2/7/07, Daniel Holbach <email address hidden> wrote:
> Maybe we should switch apport to be used for all bugs. :-)
>
> --
> bug-buddy should propose installing dbg packages when available
> https://launchpad.net/bugs/13713
>

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Hello Fernando, I think you've been subscribed on the bug when it was still on https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=7366 - you can unsubscribe yourself from the bug on the https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bug-buddy/+bug/13713/+subscribe link.

Thanks for your update, though - and all your efforts, of course.