On Wed, 10 Jul 2013, "Trent W. Buck" <trentbuck@gmail.com> wrote:
Jason White wrote:
read ~/.xsession-errors and consider all of the messages from components one didn't even know existed. One is then faced with the practical question: against which package to submit a bug report.
Um, you make an educated guess, and if you filed it against the wrong package, it's the Debian maintainer's responsibility to reassign it.
A large portion of those error messages (probably the vast majority on most systems) will be from applications such as kmail and chromium which can be run from a terminal. To solve the problem of excess error messages you could run all such programs separately to identify their logs and then after those are identified (and hopefully fixed) the rest would be known to be due to the desktop environment. The messages which are known to be due to the desktop environment can have bugs reported against a meta-package for KDE, GNOME, or whatever desktop environment is in use and whoever maintains that will be well qualified to triage them. It's not the DD's responsibility to determine the source of a random error message. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/