Re: RFC: gnome-dbg
On Thu, Mar 01, 2007, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> I don't see anything futuristic here. See bug#407701 for a generic way
> to achieve this. My idea was then to write a nautilus extension to look
> up for a package able to read a given MIME type, and to spawn synaptic
> to install it.
What I meant with generic / futuristic was something like a library
wrapping "requests for feature" to "packages" and perhaps offering UI
to spawn the package manager as well. What you did in #407701 could
be /repeated/ for other problems of course.
On a related note, your solution does not work for packages hosted in
disabled / not listed APT repositories; I think the Ubuntu spec goes
further than that and ship the actual mappings to offer access to
codecs in non-default repositories (multiverse) and commercial
repositories; well, from what I understood of it at least.
> Isn't the Ubuntu thing sending the dumps to their own servers, so that
> they can be matched to debugging information? If so, I think this is
> unacceptable wrt. user privacy.
Hmm, I don't think so either; I understood that it's just like sending
an attached core dump in your bug report.
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Loïc Minier <lool@dooz.org>
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