Le mercredi 30 mars 2005 Ã 14:17 -0600, Chris Lawrence a Ãcrit :
> > In the GNOME team, we are repeatedly receiving bugs from people who have
> > locally installed versions of some library the package depends on. I
> > believe this could easily be catched at the reportbug level. Running ldd
> > on the package's binaries in /usr/{bin,games} and libraries in /usr/lib
> > and checking for stuff in /usr/local would be enough to catch most of
> > this false reports.
> 
> If this is a particular problem for GNOME reports, why not produce a
> custom bugscript to do it?  Especially considering reportbug is
> feature-frozen for sarge...

I first thought of writing a custom bugscript, but it would have to be
done for all GNOME packages, which would mean quite some duplication of
the work. Furthermore, it doesn't happen only to GNOME packages; for
example there was a time when I'd receive such reports for fontconfig
every other day.
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