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vlc package

Please include vlc dependencies in apport

Bug #538719 reported by Rémi Denis-Courmont on 2010-03-14

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	vlc (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	High	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: vlc

Whenever Ubuntu apport makes a VLC bug report, it only shows installed dependencies for the vlc-nox package. Unfortunately, this ignores some of the most important underlying libraries, especially Qt4 and Xlib, which are depended on by the vlc package.

This makes bug analysis quite difficult in some cases.

Related branches

lp:ubuntu/lucid/vlc

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Reinhard Tartler (siretart) wrote on 2010-03-15:

I see that I can add an apport hook for vlc for lucid. I won't start working immediatly on it, if someone already has something ready, feel free to attach it to this bug.

Changed in vlc (Ubuntu):
assignee:	nobody → Reinhard Tartler (siretart)
importance:	Undecided → High
status:	New → In Progress

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote on 2010-04-07:

Attached you'll find a simple hook that will add a new attachment named "RelatedPackages" to vlc bug reports and contain the package names and versions for dependencies of vlc. This works for both ubuntu-bug vlc and ubuntu-bug vlc-nox. It'll end up creating some redundant information for bugs reported about vlc (and not vlc-nox) since some might appear in Dependencies.txt and RelatedPackages.txt. However, this should be fixed in apport itself.

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote on 2010-04-07:

source_vlc.py Edit (628 bytes, text/x-python)

Benjamin Drung (bdrung) on 2010-04-15

Changed in vlc (Ubuntu):
assignee:	Reinhard Tartler (siretart) → nobody

Benjamin Drung (bdrung) on 2010-04-15

Changed in vlc (Ubuntu):
status:	In Progress → Fix Committed

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2010-04-15:

This bug was fixed in the package vlc - 1.0.5-2ubuntu3

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vlc (1.0.5-2ubuntu3) lucid; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/527-spanish-desktop.patch: Add Spanish translation,
    thanks Ricardo Pérez López (LP: #534312).
  * Add apport hook to include more vlc dependencies in bug reports;
    thanks to Brian Murray for it (LP: #538719).
  * Drop --sourcedir=debian/tmp from dh_install to install apport hook.
-- Benjamin Drung <email address hidden> Thu, 15 Apr 2010 12:32:03 +0200