Comment 34 for bug 994921

Martin Pitt:
> We really want crashes to go to http://errors.ubuntu.com only for stable releases.
> Launchpad isn't suitable for these
> ...
> privacy problems (stable users are much less prone to be able to decide
> whether a report might contain sensitive data)
> ...
> we eventually want to move to errors.u.c even for the development release

IMHO, errors.u.c should be a little more open for collaboration,
as it may give some useful info (e. g., crash backtraces to catch some rare bugs)
for upstream projects developers,
but at the same time it should somehow protect itself from sensitive data leak.

> scalability (Launchpad doesn't deal well with hundreds of duplicates,
> and a bug tracker isn't meant to).
> ...
> As you found out, there is still a way to do this manually
> upon request of a developer, but we don't want to make this any easier.

More to say, AFAIK,
a vast majority of packages stored in Ubuntu repos are NOT really maintained by dedicated persons,
but are actually just auto-synced from Debian repositories
(sometimes with minimal changes to make them buildable on Ubuntu),
so, unfortunately, there's NO much help from reporting problems with such packages here on Launchpad.

So it looks like the advanced Ubuntu users should better look at Debian & actual upstream projects for non-essential Ubuntu packages bug reporting.