[Bug 333875] Re: apport-collect needs to be smarter about package name to report version

2009-03-20 Thread Chris Cheney
Martin, Will this be fixed before Jaunty release? It would be very helpful especially for the openoffice.org case, which currently doesn't display the package information at all. Thanks, Chris -- apport-collect needs to be smarter about package name to report version https://bugs.launchpad.net

[Bug 333875] Re: apport-collect needs to be smarter about package name to report version

2009-03-15 Thread Matt Zimmerman
I was about to file a bug with the same suggestion as in comment 1, i.e. to allow the package name to be overridden, because this is useful in other cases as well. For example, when it's not yet clear which package is at fault, it might be useful to collect information from other packages which ma

[Bug 333875] Re: apport-collect needs to be smarter about package name to report version

2009-02-26 Thread Martin Pitt
If the user has deb-src lines in apt (by default still), then we should be able to grep "Binary:" out of apt-cache showsrc and fake a binary package list. This would create some noise, and we can't really tell what the "primary" binary package of a source package is, but we can probably live with

[Bug 333875] Re: apport-collect needs to be smarter about package name to report version

2009-02-24 Thread Chris Cheney
As a workaround if there were a command line option I could just tell the user to use it for the openoffice.org case. eg: apport-collect -P openoffice.org-core (bug number) Thanks, Chris -- apport-collect needs to be smarter about package name to report version https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs

[Bug 333875] Re: apport-collect needs to be smarter about package name to report version

2009-02-24 Thread Chris Cheney
Example apport-collect data showing the lack of version information: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/333474/comments/3 -- apport-collect needs to be smarter about package name to report version https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/333875 You received this bug notificatio