changing how apport handles master bugs with private data

[Bryce Harrington]

On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 09:53:56PM +1200, Robert Collins wrote:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apport/+bug/764414
> has a summary in it of a chat pitti and I had on IRC about the
> handling of master bugs with private data. What we currently do
> consistently confuses users and prevents Launchpads duplicate bug
> detection working properly (because the master bug cannot be seen).
> 
> The basic proposal is:
>  - the master bug should be a public bug
>  - there should be a link in the description for easy access by
> developers to a private-master which has the confidential data
> [crashdumps etc]
>  - apport should do this automatically.
>
> More details in the linked bug; we'd appreciate any
> concerns/feedback/improvements folk can offer.

Sounds overly complicated.  Why not just set the crash dump attachment
as private?

Bryce