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[Brian Murray <brian@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 08:01:51PM -0400, Mike Rooney wrote:
> On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 6:12 PM, Brian Murray <brian@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > To prevent further duplicate reporting I wrote an ubuntu-bugpattern[1],
> > which is used by apport to guide a reporter to the existing bug instead
> > of filing a new one first.  The bug pattern is quite short and looks
> > like:
> >
> > <?xml version="1.0"?>
> >
> > <patterns>
> >    <pattern url="https://launchpad.net/bugs/224599";>
> >        <re key="Traceback">SystemError:.*/etc/libuser.conf</re>
> >    </pattern>
> > </patterns>
> >
> > The pattern url is the bug the reporter will be directed to and the key
> > is the file to search for a regular expression.  The patterns are pulled
> > from the bzr tree every fifteen minutes.
> >
> > Any member of the bug control team can push to the ubuntu-bugpatterns
> > bzr tree.  If you check it out you will find a detailed README file and
> > a few examples of patterns.  While this isn't incredibly useful now,
> > since apport is turned off by default, I wanted everyone to know about
> > this ability for the upcoming Intrepid cycle.
> >
> 
> Thanks, this is a really neat system in place; I had no idea it
> existed! I will be sure to track this branch.

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Brian Murray                                                 @ubuntu.com

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