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Bug#473890: provide hooks for reportbug via dh-buildinfo to ease debugging



package: debian-edu
severity: wishlist

On Saturday 16 February 2008 17:32, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> 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

Please implement something along these lines :)


regards,
	Holger

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