I'm closing this as wontfix. We really want crashes to go to
http://errors.ubuntu.com only for stable releases. Launchpad isn't
suitable for these, both for privacy problems (stable users are much
less prone to be able to decide whether a report might contain sensitive
data), as well as scalability (Launchpad doesn't deal well with hundreds
of duplicates, and a bug tracker isn't meant to).
As you found out, there is still a way to do this manually upon request
of a developer, but we don't want to make this any easier.
> 1) 'ubuntu-bug /var/crash/application.crash';
This works for (non-crash) bug reports and is integrated with the MIME
system, i. e. you can file those by merely clicking on .crash files.
IMHO this would make it too easy to send crashes to LP.
So from what I've heard from Evan and Matthew we eventually want to move
to errors.u.c even for the development release, and create bug reports
off errors.u.c. when necessary.
** Changed in: apport (Ubuntu)
Status: Triaged => Won't Fix
** Changed in: apport (Ubuntu Precise)
Status: Triaged => Won't Fix
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/994921
Title:
'ubuntu-bug /var/crash/app.crash' (and even more so, 'apport-cli -c
/var/crash/app.crash') should still allow manual bug filing in stable
releases
Status in “apport” package in Ubuntu:
Won't Fix
Status in “apport” source package in Precise:
Won't Fix
Status in “apport” source package in Quantal:
Won't Fix
Bug description:
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WORKAROUND:
comment out line 23 ("'problem_types': ['Bug', 'Package'],") in
'/etc/apport/crashdb.conf'.
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The crash database work has made it much harder for users to enable apport
bug filing for crashes in stable Ubuntu releases, even for those who could
otherwise contribute useful bug reports. "Comment out line 23 of
/etc/apport/crashdb.conf" is not particularly straightforward.
One thing that would mitigate this is if the users could still run one of the
following commands to manually submit a bug report about a given crash:
1) 'ubuntu-bug /var/crash/application.crash';
2) and even more so, 'apport-cli -c /var/crash/app.crash' (as for now, it
quietly exits without explanation after pressing the 'S' key instead of sending
a crash report, as stated in duplicate bug #992064).
The fact that this is also disabled by the crashdb settings is a tad
inconvenient. I think the manual command should be allowed to work even
post-release.
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ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: apport 2.0.1-0ubuntu7
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.37-generic 3.2.14
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu7
Architecture: amd64
CheckboxSubmission: 017452a27eca3c8b498abbfa5ef91db9
CheckboxSystem: ecaaad6fa1e0799a0aa1126bf620f39e
Date: Fri May 4 17:17:43 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64
(20100816.1)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: apport
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2011-11-08 (178 days ago)
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