Le mercredi 07 mai 2008 à 18:00 +0200, Martin Pitt a écrit : > Hi, > > Milan Bouchet-Valat [2008-05-07 17:41 +0200]: > > Why is it disabled? > > Because > > (1) we have our hands full with fixing the development release and > want to concentrate on it > > (2) we should already know about the top crashers in stable releases, > and the ones which just occur randomly or very seldomly are not a > good target for stable updates anyway > > (3) we want to avoid people filing bugs and dozens of duplicates in > vain > > (4) automatic bug reports are always a potential privacy issue, which > is more concerning for stable users. > > > I find it very useful to debug for advanced users > > instead of getting gdb traces. Is there a way to manually activate it? > > Sure, you can turn it on in /etc/default/apport. OK, thanks for the info, I had not managed to understand why apport did sometimes start and sometimes not. But it's definitely a great tool when debugging. And I guess this can help when triagin bugs: we can simply tell the user to activate apport for the time he gets an automatic trace.
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