In the GNOME team, we are repeatedly receiving bugs from people who have
locally installed versions of some library the package depends on. I
believe this could easily be catched at the reportbug level. Running ldd
on the package's binaries in /usr/{bin,games} and libraries in /usr/lib
and checking for stuff in /usr/local would be enough to catch most of
this false reports.

If this is a particular problem for GNOME reports, why not produce a
custom bugscript to do it?  Especially considering reportbug is
feature-frozen for sarge...


Chris

Le mercredi 30 mars 2005 à 14:17 -0600, Chris Lawrence a écrit :

I first thought of writing a custom bugscript, but it would have to be
done for all GNOME packages, which would mean quite some duplication of
the work. Furthermore, it doesn't happen only to GNOME packages; for
example there was a time when I'd receive such reports for fontconfig
every other day.

Good point.  I'll see about putting it in CVS and sid, hopefully we
can get it into sarge but no guarantees.


Chris

Hello Josselin

Are you still interested in seeing this feature implemented? On the
reportbug side, it would be kinda of a pita to have it implemented
correctly, not to say about the increased disk load and time to
prepare the report. I think reconsider the first Chris' suggestion
(bug script) might be interesting?

Regards,

Le dimanche 06 novembre 2011 à 17:35 +0100, Sandro Tosi a écrit :

Yes, it would still be interesting.

The bug script idea is feasible, but only if we make up something to use
a common bug script for a large number of packages.