Add apport udebs for d-i enviroment bug reporting
We currently use apport to ease bug reporting and ensure consistent information gathering in both the installed environment and the live image installer environment. However, under debian-installer, used by the alternate and server installation images, apport is not available and thus people are left resorting to manual log collection. The apport package should generate udebs so that they can be installed in the d-i environment to ease reporting bugs there.
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Not started
- Approver:
- Marjo F. Mercado
- Priority:
- Undefined
- Drafter:
- Steve Beattie
- Direction:
- Needs approval
- Assignee:
- Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre
- Definition:
- New
- Series goal:
- None
- Implementation:
-
Unknown
- Milestone target:
- None
- Started by
- Completed by
Whiteboard
Work items:
write a crash report writing tool in C: TODO
create new "failed-install" symptom for ubuntu-bug: TODO
write a debugging d-i wiki page: TODO
[mathieu-tl 2010-07-01]
Retrieved saved notes, gobby doc was lost.
NOTES FROM THE SESSION
Goal:
Easy way to report a bug against the debian-installer
Current situation
* There is currently a way to save logs: savelogs
* python is not available
Possible solution
* Send the crash report from another machine using apport there
= Actions =
crash report writing tool written in C
* this gets registered in /proc/sys/
tool for gathering logs from an incomplete install that have been transferred
over the network or via usb stick
* it needs a report format a bit like ubuntu-bug
ubuntu-bug failed-install (symptom) will be used for filing the bug with the gathered
report from the failed install after asking for the directory where the log
files are saved
* ask questions similar to debian d-i bug report page
write a debugging d-i wiki page (cjwatson)
