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Sometimes apport generates a bug report like
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/twisted/+bug/748368>.  I
think it sets "Affects" to "twisted (Ubuntu)" because the command line
tool which started the process is /usr/bin/twistd.  However, twistd is a
general purpose launcher, and in the case of the above linked bug, the
most specific project involved is vodafone-mobile-connect.  twistd is
merely launching code from that project.

This is somewhat analogous to the fact that apport files the ticket
against Twisted instead of against Python, even though the actual
executable running is a Python interpreter.

Twisted does include some plugins which will be launched with twistd, so
some twistd crashes are appropriate to file against Twisted.  Any time
the plugin being used is provided by some other project, though, I think
the bugs should start out pointing at that other project.

There are basically two ways twistd might be directed to load someone's
code.  One is with the -y option (same as the --python option).  This
takes a path and loads some code from it.  The other is with a
positional argument, as in "twistd web" (though `web` is a plugin
provided by Twisted itself).

** Affects: apport (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Medium
     Assignee: Martin Pitt (pitti)
         Status: Fix Committed

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apport generates bug reports against the twisted project instead of a more relevant project
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/755025
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