Improve the quality of apport-retrace stacktraces

Registered by Martin Pitt

apport-retracer often produces bad stack traces due to various reasons. This spec collects experience from developers, identifies the cases we can fix, and describes how to solve them.

Blueprint information

Status:
Complete
Approver:
Scott James Remnant (Canonical)
Priority:
Low
Drafter:
Martin Pitt
Direction:
Needs approval
Assignee:
Martin Pitt
Definition:
Approved
Series goal:
Accepted for gutsy
Implementation:
Implemented
Milestone target:
None
Started by
Martin Pitt
Completed by
Martin Pitt

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review: OK -- smurf 2007-05-11

pitti, 2007-06-07: Points 1 to 5 implemented, point 6 needs to happen in wine; wine team lead has been mailed.
pitti, 2007-07-25: no reply from wine team lead, mailed u-devel@
pitti, 2007-08-11: no reply from wine ML, implementing workaround; spec complete now

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