Re: reportbug and our packages (was Re: Bug#465573: education-logic-games: bug not fixed)
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On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 11:07:28PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Feb 2008, Holger Levsen wrote:
>
>> the bug submitter used reportbug and yet no info about the installed
>> cdd-dev package version was attached to the bug report. Can this be
>> achieved with some reportbug hook?
>
> As far as I know versions of build-depends are not recorded in the
> package meta information and thus I do not see a chance to tweak
> reportbug.
>
> The only idea I would have to obtain the information easily would be
> to let cdd-dev drop an information for instance in
> /usr/share/doc/<metapackage>/CDD.version
> or something like that.
>
> What do you think about this?
Sounds like it could work - but maybe next time the problem is with some
other dependency than cdd-dev.
A better approach IMHO is to use dh-buildinfo, and add a reportbug hook
to attach (or include the contents of) /usr/share/doc/<pkg>/buildinfo.gz
- Jonas
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