If a crash is already fixed by an update, prompt to install it
From the specification (https:/
"If a software update is known to fix the problem, replace the primary alert with the software update alert (or progress window, depending on the update policy), with customized primary text. Or point them at a web page (not a wiki page!) with details if a workaround exists, but no fix is available yet."
Should we show the crashes the user has received that are now fixed by a software update in the description of that update?
Should we provide a flag to automatically install updates that fix problems which left the system in an unusable state?
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Started
- Approver:
- Steve Langasek
- Priority:
- Medium
- Drafter:
- Evan
- Direction:
- Approved
- Assignee:
- Evan
- Definition:
- Approved
- Series goal:
- Accepted for raring
- Implementation:
-
Started
- Milestone target:
-
ubuntu-13.04
- Started by
- Kate Stewart
- Completed by
Whiteboard
I think that if this can be implemented, this can slow the plethora of bugs being filed although they are fixed in a new version.
- [jodh]: how about prompting *before* the user has the bad experience of a crash? (bug 777194)
release notes needed
Release Notes:
Work Items
Work items:
[ev] Create a mapping between crash signatures and the packages published in -updates that fix them: INPROGRESS
[ev] Teach whoopsie to communicate with update-
[ev] Make the install a update that fixes the crash mechanism staging aware, so that it follows the same policy that update-manager does with respect to staged updates: TODO
[brian-murray] Investigate decoupling apport from update-notifier (using upstart inotify events) so that we can report crashes without a full desktop stack running: BLOCKED
[ev] Detect circumstances under which a crash dialog would not run or not be possible to respond to (X crashing, WM crashing, grabbed and stuck cursor, etc): TODO
[ev] Teach apport to drop a .upload-no-core and .core-to-
[ev] Notification that a claimed fix does not resolve the issue: TODO
Dependency tree
* Blueprints in grey have been implemented.
