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** Changed in: apport (Ubuntu)
Status: Triaged => Incomplete
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Title:
package hooks needed an apport-retrace back-office
Status in apport package in Ubuntu:
Incomplete
Bug description:
Binary package hint: apport-retrace
Release of Ubuntu: 9.10 Karmic
Package Version:
apport-retrace:
Installed: 1.3-0ubuntu2
Candidate: 1.3-0ubuntu2
Version table:
*** 1.3-0ubuntu2 0
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages
We are working on a sanitising script for GDB [thread]stacktraces. The
objectives are:
(1) to simplify a triager' work when opening/adding a comment to an upstream
bug: currently we need to manually inspect the stacktrace to find private data
(usernames, passwords, fully-qualified server names, IP addresses, etc) and
mask them out;
(2) to allow an otherwise born-private bug to be set public with minimal
effort -- which would allow for reporters to look at it and subscribe instead
of opening a new bug.
I expect this cleanup to require a hook for each package: after all,
the variable naming is a programmer's choice, and there is no
guarantee that a general hook will match on all possible naming.
I have already written a first-approach to a package hook for
Evolution; it seems to work, but it is restricted to running on the
user's machine (I am also collecting a bit of gconf data). But the
sanitising of the GDB traces seem to work.
Finally: please take pity: this is my first Python programme, and I am
certain that there are many better ways of doing whatever I am doing;
I am wide open to lessons, though ;-).
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