xsession-errors file has gone rabid, eating up all the free disk space

[Colin Watson]

On Thu, Jul 02, 2020 at 05:15:36AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
> Unfortunately, the bug reporting process apparently requires an
> account to be created, with an extra new password, and I am too old
> and have too many passwords and PIN's, and it is difficult enough to
> remember what I am doing, sometimes, without adding to the memory
> overload.

The practice of using a password manager is great; I recommend it.  My
dad started using one a couple of years ago (he's now in his early 80s)
and found it a great improvement, since he now has fewer things he has
to remember.

> If all they required, for reporting a bug, would be to send an email
> message, as I had done to the mailing list, to something like a bug
> reporting facility, I could cope with that, but, having to create and
> use new login access accounts, is too much.

Sorry, we're not going to make such a change: developers often need to
be able to communicate with bug reporters, while avoiding it being
trivial to spam people by forging email addresses and such.  In this day
and age, an unverified email address just doesn't cut it for that.

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Colin Watson (he/him)                              [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]