use apport hooks to get more "standard" information on intial bug submission

[David Farning]

Binary package hint: firefox

Attached is a patch to test apport hooks in firefox.

The patch should be installed in /usr/share/apport/package-hooks/firefox.py

Information about package hooks can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MozillaTeam/Bugs/Apport

Thanks
David

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

please let me know if this is a stable version or not ... I would really be sure that this is properly tested.

[David Farning (dfarning)]

On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 10:41 +0000, Alexander Sack wrote:
> please let me know if this is a stable version or not ... I would really
> be sure that this is properly tested.

I have tested the hook locally and have not been able to crash it.

The script I use to test locally can be found at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MozillaTeam/Bugs/Apport

I have also tested the hook against xchat, the resulting bug report can
be found at https://beta.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xchat/+bug/88833

thanks
--
David Farning <email address hidden>

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

ok, will consider to apply to last feisty update due in a couple of day..

David, any info on the state of your hooks?

[Hilario J. Montoliu (hjmf) (hmontoliu)]

New draft of apport's firefox hook.

Appends to apport's firefox default report: the files pluginreg.dat and profiles.ini, and also a summary of all the extensions loaded on each firefox profile (the summary is the extension's name, it's version, and the id) obtained by parsing each extension's install.rdf file.

An example of what it does can be found in bug #122036

Please if possible test it with your own extensions to check possible parsing errors.

It still has to merge dfarning apport hook.

H. Montoliu

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

firefox (2.0.0.4+2-0ubuntu2) gutsy; urgency=low

  Cherry pick release for tribe-2:
  * debian/docs, debian/MPL: ship MPL (LP: #119814)
  * debian/patches/bz384304_lp117575_linkrecursion_fix_in_startscript.patch,
    debian/patches/series: patch to fix symlink handling of startup-script
    by Hilario Montoliu <email address hidden> - (LP: #117575).
  * debian/apport/firefox.py, debian/firefox.install: new apport hook for
    firefox by Hilario J. Montoliu <email address hidden>; install hook to
    /usr/share/apport/package-hooks/ (LP: #88506)

 -- Alexander Sack <email address hidden> Mon, 25 Jun 2007 10:38:55 +0200