[Reportbug-maint] Bug#302234: reportbug: please check binaries for locally installed libraries

[Sandro Tosi]

Hello Josselin

On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 09:24:27PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> 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.

Are you still interested in seeing this feature implemented? On the
reportbug side, it would be kinda of a pita to have it implemented
correctly, not to say about the increased disk load and time to
prepare the report. I think reconsider the first Chris' suggestion
(bug script) might be interesting?

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