Stefan Schulze Frielinghaus wrote:
However, in the meantime I stopped reporting crashes via ABRT because
I
think it raises the load for a package maintainer to high while the
report should go directly to upstream. Bothering the maintainer first
instead of upstream is not the right thing to do.
+1, in fact that's the biggest design failure in ABRT (in its current state)
and basically makes it useless. Gathering backtraces is something that needs
to be handled by upstream projects (like KDE does with KCrash/DrKonqi), not
distributions.
Kevin Kofler