Making apport useful for upstreams

Registered by Martin Pitt

Right now apport is very Ubuntu specific:

 - It already has an abstract packaging interface, but this became inconsistent due to some last-minute Feisty fixes.
 - Launchpad Ubuntu URLs are hardcoded into the code.

We invited the Gnome upstream crash report maintainers for Sevilla and should look out for possible improvements and collaboration: How to make apport useful for them? Any chance to merge it with bug-buddy?

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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factorization and abstraction of CrashDatabase implemented and in gutsy; data format specification written and submitted for review to upstream
We did everything to be done on the Ubuntu side, now being blocked for upstream's review comments and actually moving towards that data format.

pitti, 2009-05-27: apport is an upstream project, used in Ubuntu and OpenSUSE, currently being ported to Pardus, available for Fedora.

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