Comment 5 for bug 137687
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| Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote Re: [Bug 137687] Re: "apport" automatic bug-reporting system doesn't (apparently) let you see what it reports to launchpad | #5 |
status triaged
Hi,
Wojtek Kaniewski [2008-01-19 1:31 -0000]:
> I think I know what happened. I've looked at the code and now I see that
> report review is available only on "Crash" and "Kernel" problems, but
> not for "Package" etc. If I kill update-manager with SIGSEGV ("Crash"
> problem), it does show the dialog, but it didn't when dpkg-* failed
> during dist-upgrade ("Package" problem). Okay, I do understand that
> reports for failed dpkg-reconfigure without any core dumps, stack
> traces, process maps etc. are mostly harmless, but still I'm not
> comfortable with sending _any_ information without my confirmation.
Ah, I see what you mean. I was not concerned about this so far because
it does not contain any private data. But I see your point -- how can
you know that it's harmless until you could actually see it. :-)
I'll change apport to always display the confirmation dialog with the
details.
Thanks,
Martin
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