ABRT opt-out (was Re: Summary/Minutes from today's FESCo meeting)

[Dave Jones]

On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 10:51:39AM +0100, Jiri Moskovcak wrote:
 
 > > The problem is entirely cosmetic. No data is harmed, the program exits
 > > after that, it's just a child thread and the main process don't
 > > communicate the exit quite right. So, pretty much everyone who uses
 > > calibre sees this.
 > >
 > > I haven't been able to fix it (any help welcome), so in this case I
 > > might want to disable abrt reports for now until it's fixed, but enable
 > > them again once it is. If there was some easy way for me to do this
 > > without requiring a new abrt package be pushed out that would be
 > > great. ;)
 > >
 > 
 > added as: "provide a way for maintainers to blacklist their packages 
 > without changes into abrt package"
 > 
 > https://fedorahosted.org/abrt/wiki/Wishlist

This sounds wrong to me. Blacklisting a specific trace so further reports
of it get ignored makes sense, but not ignoring all (unrelated) crashes in a package.

	Dave