ubuntu-bug reports too much;

[Sense Hofstede]

On 19 March 2010 13:55, Rene Veerman <rene7705 at gmail.com> wrote:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz/+bug/541875
>
> ubuntu-bug auto-attached these files;
>
>    *   BootDmesg.txt  (49.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
>    * CurrentDmesg.txt (2.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
>    * Dependencies.txt (4.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
>    * GconfCompiz.txt (45.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
>    * Lspci.txt (15.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
>    * Lsusb.txt (1010 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
>    * ProcCpuinfo.txt (1.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
>    * ProcInterrupts.txt (1.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
>    * ProcModules.txt (2.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
>    * UdevDb.txt (129.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
>    * UdevLog.txt (244.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
>    * XorgConf.txt (1.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
>    * XorgLog.txt (19.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
>    * XorgLogOld.txt (19.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
>    * Xrandr.txt (578 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
>    * XsessionErrors.gz (4.1 KiB, application/x-gzip)
>    * glxinfo.txt (21.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
>
> which is way too much info imo.
>
> by the looks of it i can't even delete 'm from launchpad.. :S
>
> i don't remember seeing a privacy preference screen while ever using ubuntu-bug.
> i think it's time it got added.
>

What made you think this information is too much? That information is
added by so-called package hooks, which tell Apport what extra
information should be added to the bug report. We decide what should
be added by looking at what information we need when we want to fix a
bug.

Regards,
-- 
Sense Hofstede
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