ABRT duplicate detection

[Radek Vokal]

2010/4/24 Christoph Höger <choeger at cs.tu-berlin.de>:
> Hi all,
>
> I was just wondering: How mature is ABRTs duplicate detection?
>
> You might all know the MS "search for a solution to this problem" window
> popping up after an application crashes. I've never seen it doing
> something usefull, though. But if ABRT could detect duplicate crashes
> one could use this to display a workaround or even propose an update via
> packagekit. All we'd need to do would be to tag (or maybe link from, if
> a wiki would be better) an bugzilla entry as containing either a
> workaround or a fix. ABRT could then display the solution just after the
> crash happened. Great, wouldn't it be?
>
> comments?
>
> Christoph
>
>

I've cced the crash-catcher mailing list. Probably the developers can
comment more about this idea, but in general I really - especially the
part -known bug & known workaround, which might be linked to a
wiki-like database of  user problems and solutions.

Radek