Comment 7 for bug 391015

On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 09:59:09AM -0000, Robert Collins wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 09:46 +0000, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
>
> > > Note that bzr never 'crashes' in the python sense, so apport won't ever
> > > see bzr fail to trigger, unless we do it ourselves.
> >
> > While apport originated as a crash handler, it has grown into much more than
> > that. We encourage all Ubuntu bug reports to be reported using apport, even
> > when they are manually initiated (rather than in response to a crash).
> >
> > It's used when a user runs "ubuntu-bug bzr" for example, to report a bug
> > which didn't result in a crash.
>
> Yup, am aware of that - but thanks for being clear.
>
> Many of our users, particularly those testing newest code, run from our
> PPA; can such bugs be reported with PPAs at the moment? And similarly,
> can we get them to go upstream directly for PPA packages (which as the
> nightly PPA represents development versions, is entirely appropriate).

Launchpad doesn't support filing bugs on software in PPAs at the moment.
It's possible that apport could be tweaked to direct certain reports
upstream, if we can identify the packages reliably.

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 - mdz