Wish "report a bug" in Help menu

[Maximiliano]

Binary package hint: glom

A wish
Have a "Report a bug" under the Help menu, with a link or notes.
Ubuntu Intrepid 8.10
Glom 1.8.1

[Murray Cumming (murrayc)]

I don't know what the current guidelines are about this for Ubuntu packages. I (the upstream maintainer) have no objection to it.

[Connor Imes (ckimes)]

Adding to Wishlist, glad the maintainer agrees!

[Murray Cumming (murrayc)]

So does anyone know what the general Ubuntu policy for this is?

[Connor Imes (ckimes)]

Murray, if you use LP to track your bugs, you may consider emailing an ubuntu-devel list (probably ubuntu-devel-discuss).
https://lists.ubuntu.com/#Development+Lists
Otherwise you may need to get in contact with LP developers about their API for filing bugs.

[Murray Cumming (murrayc)]

Connor, I (the upstream maintainer) use the upstream GNOME bugzilla to track Glom bugs, though I try to monitor Ubuntu's bug reports too, to save you the time of sending them upstream.

I assume that any "File a bug" menu item would file a bug in the distro's bug tracker. I don't want to know how to do it. I want to know if it is done for other packages. I don't think it is generally done.

[Connor Imes (ckimes)]

Some/many applications allow bugs to be filed through Apport, for example, in Mozilla Thunderbird in Ubuntu you can go to Help->Report a Bug, or in other apps: Help->Report a Problem
Some other examples I can see immediately: pidgin, xchat, Calculator, gconf, gnome-terminal, etc (you get the idea). So yes, it is done for other packages, I would assume it is up to you if you want to add the functionality.

AFAIK, Apport only directs its bugs at Launchpad, but don't quote me on that.

[Jackson Doak (noskcaj)]

Invalid because we have apport for this