Bug#376443: bug-buddy: applets are erroneously printed to come from /usr/libexec/

[Samuel Mimram]

Package: bug-buddy
Version: 2.14.0-1
Severity: normal

Hi,

I recently filed a bug report against a gnome applet (sensors-applet, #376394).
The maintainers were surprised because of the following line in the
backtrace generated by bug-buddy:

Backtrace was generated from '/usr/libexec/sensors-applet'

It was strange because sensors-applet is installed in /usr/lib/gnome-panel/.
Apparently it comes from the line 276 in gdb-buddy.c:

                long_app = g_find_program_in_path (app);
                if (!long_app) {
                        /* Applets are not in path... */
                        long_app = g_strconcat(GNOMELIBEXECDIR,"/", app, NULL);
                }
                short_app = app;

where GNOMELIBEXECDIR is defined in config.h by

/* Libexec directory */
#define GNOMELIBEXECDIR "/usr/libexec"

Later on in gdb-buddy.c (line 319) the mentionned lined is printed by:

s = g_strdup_printf ("Backtrace was generated from '%s'\n\n", long_app);

It would be nice if a more suitable path could be used instead. Apparently,
some applets are installed in /usr/lib/gnome-panel/ and others in
/usr/lib/gnome-applets/. I don't know if there's a good reason for that.

Thanks!

Cheers,

Samuel.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8)

Versions of packages bug-buddy depends on:
ii  gconf2                     2.14.0-1      GNOME configuration database syste
ii  gdb                        6.4.90.dfsg-1 The GNU Debugger
ii  libbonobo2-0               2.14.0-1      Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libc6                      2.3.6-15      GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgconf2-4                2.14.0-1      GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0                1:2.5.1-2     library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0               2.10.3-2      The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-desktop-2         2.14.2-2      Utility library for loading .deskt
ii  libgnome-menu2             2.14.0-3      an implementation of the freedeskt
ii  libgnome2-0                2.14.1-2      The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomeui-0               2.14.1-2      The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0             2.14.2-1      GNOME virtual file-system (runtime
ii  libgtk2.0-0                2.8.18-1      The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  liborbit2                  1:2.14.0-2    libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libxml2                    2.6.26.dfsg-1 GNOME XML library
ii  scrollkeeper               0.3.14-11     A free electronic cataloging syste

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