On Tue, 2013-02-19 at 11:33 +0100, Miroslav Suchý wrote:
> I was curious what is the most buggy [1] package in Fedora and I made
> this chart:
>
>
http://tinyurl.com/bx6brjh
>
> Click on "Total" and you get it sorted from most buggy to least buggy.
> (I do not know if this sort flag can be made part of URL).
>
> Lazy to click? Here is Top 10:.
>
> Component NEW ASSIGNED TOTAL
> Package Review 943 384 1327
> kernel 884 118 1002
> gnome-shell 619 15 634
> anaconda 463 85 548
> xorg-x11-server 439 15 454
> yum 335 14 349
> python 334 5 339
> tracker 294 8 302
> control-center 205 1 206
> rhythmbox 202 1 203
How many of these bugs have "abrt" in the subject?
For Python's NEW bugs its about 2/3rds of them.
abrt consistently gets the component wrong for Python bugs; initially
any time a Python script segfaulted (thus crashing /usr/bin/python) abrt
assigned the component as python. For a while this was fixed, and it
filed the component as whatever the bottom of the stack was. But it
regressed a while back.
I have a script that automates some of the workload of reassigning the
component back to where the bug really is, but it currently requires
some manual intervention:
http://fedorapeople.org/cgit/dmalcolm/public_git/triage.git
so inevitably I don't run it on every bug that comes in every day, and
so I gradually get behind.
Of course, architecturally, this is completely bogus - it's insane for
bugs to be filed in bugzilla for segfaults and for me to be running a
script when I get emails in my inbox to try to triage them.
What we really should be doing is have abrt report crashes to a
dedicated crash-reporting db (I believe the retrace server is this), and
the crash-reporting db should load the coredump with the right debuginfo
packages, and triage accordingly.
Question: does a python segfault from a broken script indicate a
python bug as well? The scripting engine shouldn't really be crashing.
This is a bit of an aside from your point though, as either way the
script bug is going to need fixed and is probably a better starting
place to find issues with the interpreter.
--
imalone