Apport – Why Apport Made Bug Report Private

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Apport detected a crash and assisted with submitting a bug report to Launchpad, but it make the report private. Why?

It doesn't seem very helpful that I'm the only one with permission to read the report. Do I need to now track down someone else to look through it?

Best Answer

Apport decided that the attachments/logs/etc you submitted automatically in that bug report may contain information that compromises your privacy.

In time (usually within a few hours, certainly with a few days) then an automatic process will look through your bug report attachments, "retrace" them (which I believe both helps the developers find useful information, but also can remove personal information) and finally marks the bug as public.

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