apport 0.35 source package in Ubuntu

Changelog

apport (0.35) feisty; urgency=low

  Optimizations:

  * apport/fileutils.py: Split out heuristics for determining whether a file
    belongs to a package to new function likely_packaged() and add test cases.
  * bin/apport: Do not use the expensive find_file_package() any more, use
    likely_packaged() instead. This will create initial reports in some
    corner cases (like custom non-packaged executables in /usr/bin/), but
    greatly reduces I/O impact at crash time. We rely on apport-gtk to deal
    with reports that do not actually belong to a packaged executable.
  * apport/report.py, add_gdb_info(): Call gdb just once and split the output
    instead of calling it again for each command. This should significantly
    speed up the gdb stage especially for large programs/core dumps.
  * Use cStringIO instead of StringIO in modules.
  * gtk/apport-gtk: Code cleanup and refactorization:
    - Move iteration over crash reports into __main__ to simplify housekeeping
      in the ApportGTK class and get rid of some functions.
    - Refactor creation of temporary report file.
  * gtk/apport-gtk.glade: Split the text in the progress bar dialog so that we
    can use it for multiple steps (like uploading data to Malone) while not
    breaking translations.

  New feature: Bug reporting tool (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BugReportingTool)

  * gtk/apport-gtk: Split out crash report initialization to new function
    show_crashes() so that we can use the frontend for other purposes like bug
    reporting.
  * gtk/apport-gtk: Add --file-bug, --package, and --pid options; if given,
    create a bug report about the given package instead of viewing crash
    reports.
  * gtk/apport-gtk{,.glade}: Generalize some strings to not talk about 'crash'
    any more, to make them suitable for bug reporting, too.
  * gtk/apport-gtk: Support --file-bug without specifying a package or a PID
    for filing generic distro bugs.
  * problem_report.py: Add new method write_mime() to encode a problem report
    in MIME/Multipart RFC 2822 format (i. e. an email with attachments). Short
    values are aggregated into the first inline text/plain part, large values,
    binary values, and file references get gzip compressed separate
    attachments. Also add various test cases.

  Bug/crash information:

  * apport/report.py, add_user_info(): Add list of system groups that the user
    belongs to.
  * bin/apport: Call add_user_info(), check functionality in test-apport.
  * apport/report.py, add_gdb_info(): Add field 'StacktraceTop' with the top
    five functions on the stack and no local variables. This reduced 'glimpse'
    is suitable for inline display in bug reports and automatic processing
    (dup finders, etc).

  Bug fixes:

  * po/Makefile: Add top_srcdir to work with current intltool.
  * po/de.po: Unfuzz some strings.
  * apport/report.py, add_gdb_info(): Strip away the 'No symbol table info
    available' messages from stack traces.
  * apport/report.py, test_search_bug_patterns(): Use security.u.c. instead
    of archive.u.c., since the latter times out too often.

 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden>   Wed,  3 Jan 2007 16:45:20 +0100