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[Brian Murray <brian@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 03:42:08PM -0700, Steve Beattie wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just added an apport bug filter for
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/upstart/+bug/273761 and
> since I was doing this for the first time, I was unsure how to test
> the pattern I'd created. With the help of Brian Murray, I learned
> that apport is configured to look for the location of the bug filters
> in /etc/apport/crashdb.conf. By modifying this configuration file,
> it's possible to test a new filter without pushing it up to the main
> repository by pointing the configuration to an alternate location. (It's
> useful to have this be on webserver that you can view the access logs,
> so you can see the actual file name that apport requests; in the bug
> above, apport was not asking for the name I expected it to.)
> 
> I've added this documentation to the README file in the bzr tree.

Great thanks for doing that!  Looking at this reminded me of a report[0]
I run which looks for the bugs with most duplicates.  I took a cursory
inspection at the bug numbers and some of them look old but it'd be
great if someone could take the time to look for Intrepid ones and
possibly add bug patterns for them.

[0]
http://people.ubuntu.com/~brian/reports/database/bugs-with-most-duplicates.html

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Brian Murray                                                 @ubuntu.com

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