all reports with LaunchpadPrivate in them are tagged need-$arch-retrace

[Brian Murray]

I was recently reviewing the crash reports which the Launchpad retracers handle and was surprised to see a bunch of ubuntu-advantage-tools reports that retracing was tried for even though they had a ProblemType of Bug. Looking at the ubuntu-advantage-tools apport package hook we can see that all the LaunchpadPrivate is set to 1, then looking at `apport/crashdb_impl/launchpad.py` there is:

1083 if "DistroRelease" in report:
1084 if a and (
1085 "VmCore" in report
1086 or "CoreDump" in report
1087 or "LaunchpadPrivate" in report
1088 ):
1089 hdr["Private"] = "yes"
1090 hdr["Subscribers"] = report.get(
1091 "LaunchpadSubscribe",
1092 self.options.get("initial_subscriber", "apport"),
1093 )
1094 hdr["Tags"] += f" need-{a}-retrace"

Adding need-$arch-retrace is incorrect if the ProblemType is Bug.

Here are some example bugs:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-advantage-tools/+bug/2067076
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-advantage-tools/+bug/2066231

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Is this planned on being worked on any time soon? The Launchpad apport retracer is regularly trying to retrace ubuntu-advantage-tool bug reports that do not need retracing.

[Simon Chopin (schopin)]

It's on my board for this pulse.

[Simon Chopin (schopin)]

I've looked a bit into it. It seems this has been going on for more than a decade, it might just be that so far most explicitly private reports we were getting were for crashes.

Just so that I'm clear, adding `apport` as a subscriber is needed for the retrace/duplicate bit, but not for the generic private case, right?

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

I believe the ubuntu-advantage-tools is one of the first apport package hooks to be setting the LaunchpadPrivate variable so that would explain why this has never come up before.

Yes, ~apport needs to be subscribed to bug reports which need retracing and not generic private bug reports.

[Simon Chopin (schopin)]

Ongoing work at https://github.com/canonical/apport/pull/367