[Reportbug-maint] Bug#548415: reportbug: Package upgrade information in bug reports

[Sandro Tosi]

On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 12:32, Mike Hommey <mh at glandium.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 01:11:16AM +0100, Sandro Tosi wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 08:03, Mike Hommey <mh at glandium.org> wrote:
>> > I, for one, don't care very much about the dependency, but more about
>> > the fact that not having it installed could mean not being able to pull
>> > the information, even by installing afterwards. A dpkg.log parser would
>> > always work, except when the logs are rotated and old enough to have
>> > been removed.
>>
>> I tend to agree with Mike here: a log parser would be very nice, like something
>>
>> dpkg-log last_ops <package>
>>
>> <N> <op_N, like purge install remove etc> <package> <version>
>> <N-1> <op_N-1> <package> <version> (<prev_version> if needed)
>> <N-2> <op_N-2> <package> <version>
>> <N-3> <op_N-3> <package> <version>
>> <N-4> <op_N-4> <package> <version>
>>
>> or a series of other interesting commands.
>>
>> Default logrotate configuration keeps a year of log, so we have quite
>> a bit of room even for the very lazy bug reporters :)
>>
>> What I'd like to avoid (with the reportbug maint hat on) is to let
>> reportbug parse a log file (either dpkg or xapian) to extract the info
>> it needs.
>
> Looks like things are happening
> http://justimho.blogspot.com/2011/02/let-me-introduce-dpkglog-and-dpkg.html

Sorry to chime in so late; I've reported some bugs against
libdpkg-log-perl, let's see how it goes. If I missed some, please
integrated :)

Regards,
-- 
Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu)
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