[LIBREPORT PATCH] Replace %reporter thing in BZ reporter with "libreport_version" element

Denys Vlasenko dvlasenk at redhat.com
Mon Sep 9 10:52:21 UTC 2013


On 09/09/2013 10:12 AM, Jakub Filak wrote:
> If you add a new element like this one (libreport_version) and remove
> %reporter keyword, you will see version of libreport used to create the
> dump directory but you won't see the version of libreport used to file
> the bug tracking ticket. But we need to know even the later mentioned
> version because of bugs in formatting and so on.

There are more steps in problem processing,
by this logic we need to know libreport version of every step
separately, since they can be different too.

I think that since the version is usually the same on every step,
it is enough to record it once.

> I've added the
> %reporter keyword because the previous formatting algorithm provided this
> information and I find it really useful.

I agree that it's useful.

However, why adding a special case for it when we already have a standard
mechanism for adding information to problems (i.e. we add new elements
to problem directories)?



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