Re: Apport for Debian
Am Montag, den 13.05.2013, 12:00 +0200 schrieb Tollef Fog Heen:
> ]] Paul Wise
>
> > Another issue is privacy; backtraces may contain private information
> > that should not leave the system and there is no automated way to
> > determine that. How does Ubuntu deal with that?
>
> IIRC, they mark the bugs as private on submission, then they have a
> server-side process that processes the core files, adding backtraces and
> removing the core file afterward. This isn't perfect but, it's deemed
> good enough. (This is from what I remember it was like some years ago,
> I might be misremembering and they might have changed the process since.)
That's how it work. A ubuntu-bugcontrol member needs to review the
generated backtrace for private data and then mark the bug as public
[1].
[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/HowToTriage#Apport_crash_reports
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Benjamin Drung
Debian & Ubuntu Developer
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