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apport package

support multiple crashdbs

Bug #957177 reported by Martin Pitt
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apport (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Medium
Unassigned
Raring
Won't Fix
Medium
Martin Pitt
whoopsie (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
Unassigned
Raring
Won't Fix
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

Right now Apport only supports sending reports to one crashdb.

With whoopsie we actually have two now, which we want to send reports to at the same time. whoopsie support is currently bolted on at the side, but it would be more elegant to create an actual whoopsie CrashDB backend, and then change /etc/apport/crashdb.conf to send to multiple DBs at the same time (e. g. launchpad+whoopsie during development, and just whoopsie post-release).

I just discussed the addition of a new "problem_types" CrashDB option with Evan, which is a list of "ProblemType" values this crashdb accepts. So e. g. after release, the launchpad DB could say "problem_types: ['Bug', 'Package']" if we don't want LP bug reports for crashes any more.

If we have that, ui.py could then check if any of the active CrashDBs takes that particular ProblemType, and present the report. If no crashdb takes it, it wouldn't show the report at all.

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

To clarify, we need support for the problem_types option in Precise, to be able to selectively disable LP crash bugs. Support for multiple DBs and a whoopsie DB are fine for Ubuntu 12.10.

Changed in apport (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
assignee: nobody → Martin Pitt (pitti)
importance: Undecided → Medium
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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

The part that's necessary for precise is tracked in bug 968121.

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Chris Bainbridge (chris-bainbridge) wrote :

Following up from bug #1000945, if whoopsie isn't considered a direct dependency of apport, shouldn't the apport package at least have whoopsie in "Recommends"? It seems like apport doesn't actually do anything now without whoopsie being installed.

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

Chris, it should be the other way round in my opinion: If you uninstall whoopsie because you don't want/can't use it, that should be possible. Apport should just not present/report crashes then (in released versions), but you should still be able to file bug reports to Launchpad with it (ubuntu-bug <packagename> or just "ubuntu-bug" for the symptoms).

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Chris Bainbridge (chris-bainbridge) wrote :

Will whoopsie work without apport? If not, then it should have apport in "Depends". (It is not clear to me exactly what whoopsie does or how it works; there is no man page, and no relevant documentation in /usr/share/doc/whoopsie)

If either package benefits greatly from having the other installed, but it is not an absolute dependency, then the other package should be in "Recommends". That way the other package will be installed by default, but can be uninstalled if you want.

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote : Re: [Bug 957177] Re: support multiple crashdbs

 affects ubuntu/whoopsie-daisy

Chris Bainbridge [2012-05-18 19:16 -0000]:
> Will whoopsie work without apport? If not, then it should have apport in
> "Depends".

I agree. Adding a whoopsie task.

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

I've tagged this rls-q-notfixing as it doesn't look like it will make the Quantal release.

tags: added: rls-q-notfixing
Evan (ev)
tags: added: whoopsie-daisy
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in whoopsie-daisy (Ubuntu Quantal):
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in whoopsie-daisy (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Evan (ev)
no longer affects: whoopsie-daisy (Ubuntu)
no longer affects: whoopsie-daisy (Ubuntu Quantal)
no longer affects: apport (Ubuntu Quantal)
no longer affects: whoopsie (Ubuntu Quantal)
Brian Murray (brian-murray)
Changed in whoopsie (Ubuntu Raring):
status: New → Won't Fix
Changed in apport (Ubuntu Raring):
status: Triaged → Won't Fix
Launchpad Janitor (janitor)
Changed in whoopsie (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Martin Pitt (pitti)
Changed in apport (Ubuntu):
assignee: Martin Pitt (pitti) → nobody
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Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson) wrote :

This release of Ubuntu is no longer receiving maintenance updates. If this is still an issue on a maintained version of Ubuntu please let us know.

Changed in apport (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Incomplete
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Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson) wrote :

This issue has sat incomplete for more than 60 days now. I'm going to close it as invalid. Please feel free re-open if this is still an issue for you. Thank you.

Changed in apport (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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