apport 0.41 source package in Ubuntu

Changelog

apport (0.41) feisty; urgency=low

  New feature: Use Malone cloakroom for uploading reports. Closes: LP#70919

  * gtk/apport-gtk.glade: Redesign bug reporting dialog to have a 'Create bug
    report' and a 'Cancel' button. Also assign GTK_RESPONSE_* constants to the
    dialog buttons. Go back to Glade 2 since Glade 3 still sucks too much.
  * gtk/apport-gtk: Adjust workflow for sending report to Malone cloakroom
    instead of asking the user to attach the file. Sending is not yet
    implemented, though.
  * gtk/apport-gtk: Do not show any dialogs any more when filing a bug.
  * Add apport/MultipartPostHandler.py: This module provides an urllib2 opener
    for uploading file attachments to forms over HTTP POST. This module is
    (C) 2006 Will Holcomb <email address hidden> and was taken from
    http://odin.himinbi.org/MultipartPostHandler.py. (This is a serious hole
    of the Python standard library IMHO.)
  * apport/ui.py, file_report(): Upload blob to Malone (edge.launchpad.net for
    now), retrieve the ticket, and pass it to +filebug.

  Refactorizations:

  * gtk/apport-gtk: Major refactorization to use modal dialogs and run()
    instead of loosely coupled event handlers.
  * Add apport/ui.py: Abstract frontend which encapsulates the logic, workflow
    and UI independent bits and provides UI hooks for concrete
    implementations. This both makes it easy to write more frontends like Qt
    or CLI, and also makes the code automatically testable. Add an extensive
    testsuite.
  * run-tests: Add ui.py testsuite.
  * gtk/apport-gtk: Port to ui.py's UserInterface (which means moving 1/3 of
    the code into the new ui_*() methods and throwing away the rest).
  * Add apport/REThread.py: Enhanced threading.Thread class that can propagate
    the return value and uncaught exceptions of run() to the calling thread.
  * apport/ui.py: Get rid of thread_check_bugpatterns() and hackish exception
    handling, rewrite using REThread.
  * apport/ui.py, gtk/apport-gtk: Add progress bar to report upload. It is
    indefinite for now, because neither urllib2 nor httplib support upload
    progress.

  Bug fixes:

  * gtk/apport-gtk.glade: Merged Gnome HIG fixes from Sebastian Heinlein,
    thank you!
  * Merge patch from Sebastian Heinlein to properly treat the apport-gtk icon
    the dh_iconcache way and make it themeable. Thank you!
  * gtk/apport-gtk: Remove periods from primary dialog texts to comply with
    Gnome HIG standards.
  * backends/packaging-dpkg.py, get_file_package(): Process list files in
    chunks of 100, so that we do not exceed the maximum command line length if
    there is a large number of packages installed. Closes: LP#64839
  * gtk/apport-gtk: Use pgrep with -u instead of pidof for testing whether the
    crashed process is already running again, so that we do not match
    processes of other users. Add procps package dependency for this.
  * gtk/apport-gtk: Only offer to restart programs that are in the $PATH. E.
    g. /usr/lib/firefox/firefox-bin cannot be called directly.
    Closes: LP#79623
  * apport/report.py: Disassemble 16 instructions instead of 32 bytes to
    become independent of the instruction size. Thanks to Kees Cook for the
    patch!

 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden>   Mon, 22 Jan 2007 10:47:33 +0100