** Also affects: apport (Ubuntu Oneiric)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Description changed:
Sometimes apport generates a bug report like
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/twisted/+bug/748368>. I
think it sets "Affects" to "twisted (Ubuntu)" because the command line
tool which started the process is /usr/bin/twistd. However, twistd is a
general purpose launcher, and in the case of the above linked bug, the
most specific project involved is vodafone-mobile-connect. twistd is
merely launching code from that project.
This is somewhat analogous to the fact that apport files the ticket
against Twisted instead of against Python, even though the actual
executable running is a Python interpreter.
Twisted does include some plugins which will be launched with twistd, so
some twistd crashes are appropriate to file against Twisted. Any time
the plugin being used is provided by some other project, though, I think
the bugs should start out pointing at that other project.
There are basically two ways twistd might be directed to load someone's
code. One is with the -y option (same as the --python option). This
takes a path and loads some code from it. The other is with a
positional argument, as in "twistd web" (though `web` is a plugin
- provided by Twisted itself).
+ provided by Twisted itself).
+
+ SRU INFORMATION: This is a bit hard to reproduce, but as this causes
+ needless crash reports against the twisted package, I'd still like to
+ backport this fix into oneiric. It comes with test cases in the test
+ suite which distill the apport information from the bugs referenced
+ here, so if that succeeds, this will be fixed.
** Changed in: apport (Ubuntu Oneiric)
Status: New => Fix Committed
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apport generates bug reports against the twisted project instead of a
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