I would like to have Apport (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Apport) for Gentoo. It would make filling bugs a lot easier and a lot of crashes don't get lost (it's annoying when Firefox or something else just dissapears because of a crash and no crash-handler is at least getting a backtrace). When I have some free time, I try to create an ebuild by my own. I would suggest the name sys-devel/apport.
Created attachment 160203 [details] apport-0.110.ebuild Initial ebuild. It's a work-in-progress. Missing are desktop entries, init.d-script and a config file. Also, the tool itself has to be patched a bit. I am not ready yet but I have to leave this thing for now. Feel free to grab it yourself and continue the work.
Created attachment 160206 [details] files/packaging_gentoo.py This file is needed as an implementation for the PackageInfo class which gives access to the package manager (portage) and information about requested packages. This implementation is also not finished yet.
Upstream appears to be reasonably alive, at least including Ubuntu contributions. The question is, is there still user interest in adding Apport to the tree? If there is, the easiest way of having it included is for an user to become its proxied maintainer and submit an ebuild for inclusion by our dedicated team [1], for instance as a pull request in the Gentoo repository on GitHub [1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Proxy_Maintainers On the other hand, if there is no user interest we shall close this ticket as WONTFIX in 30 days - although it can of course always be reopened if need be.
