Re: assigning of abrt crashes

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On 08/17/2010 01:11 PM, drago01 wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 5:01 PM, Colin Walters<walters@xxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'd like to propose a general rule that ABRT crash logs should remain
>> "assigned" to the actual application, unless an actual investigation
>> has been done and there's a "reasonable" certainty the flaw is in the
>> library code in which it happened to crash.
>>
>> Rationale: Applications are more likely to be buggy (I'm just
>> asserting this, but it seems obvious), and just because a crash
>> happened inside the library, particularly when C/C++ is involved,
>> means nothing; the flaw could still be in the application.  If we
>> reassign them, it's harder to make all crashes for an application
>> visible.
>>
>> I'm fine with being added to a CC list, but reassigning is more of a mess.
>>
>> Sample crash: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=624098
>
> Hah I proposed the opposite here:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=603289 ... in my case I
> get lots of compiz bugs that a clearly mesa / driver bugs and all I
> can do do is to reassign them.
> I got tired of doing that so I filed said bug.

Since there's no systematic way of figuring out if it's the app or the 
library, perhaps the bug should be filed against both? I don't think 
Bugzilla allows specifying two components for the same bug so it would 
have to be two separate bugs, which sounds heavy-handed. Two mitigating 
circumstances are:

- abrt would only do it if the stack trace clearly indicates that a 
library is involved

- bug reviewers can quickly close the superfluous one
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