Hi, Am Montag 08 Oktober 2007 19:24:39 schrieb Christian Robottom Reis: > On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 08:25:55PM +0200, Stefan Potyra wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Am Mittwoch 03 Oktober 2007 17:47:49 schrieb Christian Robottom Reis: > > > On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 02:46:11PM +0200, Stefan Potyra wrote: > > > > (1) Package versions in bugs. > > > > > > Captured from the bug reporter, or something else? > > > > In an ideal world, the bug reporter wouldn't need to know (e.g. the way > > reportbug deals this in interaction with debian's bts, but I guess there > > are more technical ways to solve this like usage of browser plugins or > > youtellme ;). As a first step though, capturing from the reporter would > > greatly help. > > I have never really believed the reporter would be able to provide very > reliable information. Well, asking the reporter for the version has been one of my first questions when dealing with bugs in the past ;). > The reportbug path is a promising one but I'm not > sure what its status is in Ubuntu. Me neither. > We've considered before using the > user-agent string in the browser, but that's not ideal and can't really > tell you the version of an arbitrary package, can it? No it can't. Nonetheless this idea is interesting: Could it be a heuristic to find out the distribution (dapper/edgy etc.) the reporter is using? That would also be valuable information imho. Cheers, Stefan.
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