On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 22:36:44 +0200, Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Le mercredi 30 mars 2005 à 14:17 -0600, Chris Lawrence a écrit :
> > > In the GNOME team, we are repeatedly receiving bugs from people who have
> > > locally installed versions of some library the package depends on. I
> > > believe this could easily be catched at the reportbug level. Running ldd
> > > on the package's binaries in /usr/{bin,games} and libraries in /usr/lib
> > > and checking for stuff in /usr/local would be enough to catch most of
> > > this false reports.
> >
> > If this is a particular problem for GNOME reports, why not produce a
> > custom bugscript to do it? Especially considering reportbug is
> > feature-frozen for sarge...
>
> I first thought of writing a custom bugscript, but it would have to be
> done for all GNOME packages, which would mean quite some duplication of
> the work. Furthermore, it doesn't happen only to GNOME packages; for
> example there was a time when I'd receive such reports for fontconfig
> every other day.
Good point. I'll see about putting it in CVS and sid, hopefully we
can get it into sarge but no guarantees.
Chris
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