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24.4; please don't include view-lossage in bug reports by default

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Message #17 received at 18900 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: David Bremner <david <at> tethera.net>
To: rms <at> gnu.org, Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 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 17:02:45 +0100

Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org> writes:

>
> 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.

I'd worry a bit about similar issues with writing sensitive information
to disk in clear text. Although this is almost certainly less severe of
a problem than sending the same information to a public mailing list, it
still doesn't seem like a good default to me.

What about a seperate function "report-bug-with-key-log" so that the
user has to consciously make a choice to send this information? One can
of course debate about the name, I would just prefer transparency to
tradition here.

Cheers,

David

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