On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 09:10:27PM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote: > Matt Zimmerman [2008-08-14 15:19 +0100]: > > What is the clutter? > > Two reasons for me, mainly: First, a lot of failures are > unreproducible and probably due to some sort of local failure (third > party packages installed, nvidia upstream installer messing up the > system, full disk, automatix, etc.), and second, in a lot of cases the > actual bug is in a completely different package, for example, because > a program called in the postinst fails. > > I'm in favor of keeping them, particularly because package > installation failures are such a pain foor users. But we should invest > some resources in > > - automatic duplicate detection (nontrivial, since the reason is > hidden in the terminal log, etc.) > > - detecting local breakage/customization (UnreportableReason) > > I'm happy to work on that for intrepid+1 if there is a strong enough > desire and time allocation.
I agree, it would be worthwhile to work toward filtering out the noise rather than disabling the error reports. -- - mdz -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
