ABRT unusable again

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Sat Feb 6 17:53:31 UTC 2010


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



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