Hi, On Thu, Mar 01, 2007, Josselin Mouette wrote: > 1. Making bug-buddy downloading them automatically when needed; > this needs to integrate a lot of intelligence in bug-buddy > itself, as it would have to know which packages to download to > generate a useful backtrace. The user would also need to wait > for the download to complete.
I don't know how complex it is to achieve this, I suppose there are some examples in other apps such as time-admin in ways to spwan the package manager to install stuff and how to test for installed stuff? For me, this opens a more general question about what we want bug-buddy to be for us: do we want to interface it to the Debian BTS or to send the report upstream? Do we need a gateway where we could filter bug-buddy reports from the Debian bug-buddy? Another thing I have in mind is that we need some more formal package installation service; I'm not sure of the progress of the Ubuntu folks on the "codec issue": they are working on a way to pull/suggest *.debs which are useful to decode certain formats. The bug-buddy problem sounds a similar type of problem: when faced to a situation where some additional packages would be useful, locate the appropriate packages and suggest/install them. I don't think their current solution is generic in this regard though. (I know this is kind of futuristic, but I thought I would share it nevertheless.) > 2. Making the gnome-desktop-environment metapackage recommend > gnome-dbg, and gnome depend on it, but only in the development > cycle, not in stable releases. Sounds good. I'm not sure whether your position changed on *.ddeb debug packages; that would also be helpful IMO. I didn't try the SIGSEGV kernel handler that I think is nowadays in use in Ubuntu, but from what I've heard it gives good results in matching the installed packages with debug packages and producing useful backtraces. This is certainly harder a project to achieve in Debian than in Ubuntu, but I don't see what we would have to lose with such a feature; I certainly see we would get debug symbols for programs, and not only for libraries like we mostly have now. Cheers, -- Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
