GNU bug report logs - #18900
24.4; please don't include view-lossage in bug reports by default

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: David Bremner <david <at> tethera.net>

Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 07:57:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 24.4

Fixed in version 24.5

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #14 received at 18900 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: david <at> tethera.net, 18900 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#18900: 24.4;
 please don't include view-lossage in bug reports by default
Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2014 11:04:47 -0400

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  > I can't remember a single bug report in which I found the lossage useful
  > or relevant. I'd be happy to just remove it. We can always ask for it in
  > the extremely rare cases where it is needed.

Are you thinking of a reproducible bug?  It isn't needed for them.  It
is meant to be useful for irreproducible bugs, if the user runs
report-emacs-bug right away.

To make it possible to ask for those data later, they have to be
saved.  We could make report-emacs-bug save them in a file
in case they are asked for.

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