[HEADS-UP] replacing report with libreport

[Daniel J Walsh]

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On 06/29/2011 05:50 AM, Jiri Moskovcak wrote:
> Hi!
> I'm going to replace the report library with the new libreport. Today I 
> plan to replace it in rawhide and if it goes smoothly I'd like to 
> replace it in F15 as well.
> 
Hasn't this already reached F15?  Have you readded the GTKIO stuff?
> pros:
> - libreport is written in C (report is in python), so it's easier to 
> write bindings for other languages
> - it's API compatible with report (it has python bindings)
> - it shares configuration with ABRT, so users just need to write their 
> credentials and defaults only once
> - shares the UI with ABRT (the reporting wizard), so users are presented 
> with the same UI despite of from where they are reporting a problem
> 
> cons:
> - it has a bit different UI
> - account information (e.g: bz loging+password) is forgotten and needs 
> to be entered again
Why?  Is it remembered within the session?  Can't it save the bugzilla
info within the gnome-keyring?
> - some minor breakage expected (hopefully not...)
> 
> 
> affected packages (according to repoquery):
> - report + subpackages (being obsoleted)
> - python-meh
>    - anaconda
>    - anaconda-0:15.31-1.fc15.x86_64
>    - firstboot-0:1.119-1.fc15.x86_64
>    - system-config-kickstart-0:2.8.7-2.fc15.noarch
> - setroubleshoot
> 
> As I said, libreport should be API compatible with report, so no changes 
> should needed, but of course can't be 100% sure if it's bugfree ;)

Do we have to do anything to our packages to make this work?
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