Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: evolution

I have written an apport hook for Evolution; the main idea was to
sanitise the stacktraces (by taking out all private data). Since I was
at it, I went ahead and collected a bit of non-private data from gconf:
eplugins, Junk, and prompts entries.

The hook tries to find instances of:

- email addresses
- IP addresses, or fully-qualified host names
- some variables that are known (to developers and triageres) to contain 
private data, like 'key', 'uri', 'profname', 'username', 'password', etc.

Full sanitising depends on a hook being driven from the back-office
retrace (see bug 387933), and will probably need a slightly different
hook: for example, we should not try to collect gconf data...).

I am attaching the following files:

* source_evolution.py: the apport hook itself
* evo-bugs-with-stacktrace.csv: a comma-separated-values file with the 
Evolution bugs that contained a stacktrace attachment
* apport-download.py: a first-try on a small apport utility to download 
(rebuild) an apport report from a bug
* evo-tester.py: a hack to download the apport reports from the CSV file above.

** Affects: evolution (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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apport hook for Evolution
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/391623
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