Is there (going to be) an auto-retracer service for KDE?

[Nate Graham]

Hello Lyubomir,

Automatic symbolication services are great, but they need to be run by 
distros, because distros are the ones who build their own binaries.

The problem with apport is that it reports bugs to Ubuntu, not to us. 
Some of these bug reports get forwarded to us, but most don't. As a 
result they mostly don't help us. Our own crash reporting tool is 
generic and cross-distro, but as a consequence, it isn't hooked into 
distro-specific remote symbolication services. It does however have 
facilities to automatically fetch symbols when needed. Sometimes this 
doesn't work as well as it should, but the feature is there.

Nate


On 4/25/21 3:55 PM, Lyubomir Parvanov wrote:
> I'm not much into KDE bug reporting and also not much into Apport. I'm 
> simply a user.
> 
> However, what i know is that as a previous Gnome user i never saw a 
> "Gnome reporter" piece of software. As a KDE user now I frequently see 
> the specific "KDE bug reporter" piece of software, and it never ever 
> reported a crash because it misses symbols. I know that Linux users are 
> supposed to know their way around the terminal, but still...
> 
> Also I know that as KDE developers you can register at 
> https://errors.ubuntu.com/ <https://errors.ubuntu.com/> via the form.
> I also know about THIS <https://youtu.be/PPQ7k0jRUE4?t=1781> video which 
> although it is old is still relevant.
> 
> KDE doesn't run only on Ubuntu and Apport might be an Ubuntu software, 
> but surely it can be configured by default to be used on Ubuntu, can't it?
> 
> This thread was meant as a question and/or discussion, mainly fuelled by 
> my thoughts and experiences with Apport which seems to be a more 
> convenient way of error collection.