Subject: bug#39185: [PATCH] Don't include section "Recent messages" in bug reports

From: Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2020 00:58:18 +0100

Does anyone object to installing the below patch on master?

See here for background:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2019-11/msg01099.html

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas

>From 74d5b879b42a7f3084910eda74b2b733ebe8984a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2019 10:30:30 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Don't include section "Recent messages" in bug reports

* lisp/mail/emacsbug.el (report-emacs-bug): Don't include "Recent
messages" since it has privacy implications.
Problem reported by Lars Ingebrigtsen in:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2019-11/msg01099.html
---
 lisp/mail/emacsbug.el | 12 ------------
 1 file changed, 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lisp/mail/emacsbug.el b/lisp/mail/emacsbug.el
index fea7619b50..e4534746dd 100644
--- a/lisp/mail/emacsbug.el
+++ b/lisp/mail/emacsbug.el
@@ -320,18 +320,6 @@ report-emacs-bug
     (let ((os (ignore-errors (report-emacs-bug--os-description))))
       (if (stringp os)
           (insert "System Description: " os "\n\n")))
-    (let ((message-buf (get-buffer "*Messages*")))
-      (if message-buf
-	  (let (beg-pos
-		(end-pos message-end-point))
-	    (with-current-buffer message-buf
-	      (goto-char end-pos)
-	      (forward-line -10)
-	      (setq beg-pos (point)))
-            (terpri (current-buffer) t)
-	    (insert "Recent messages:\n")
-	    (insert-buffer-substring message-buf beg-pos end-pos))))
-    (insert "\n")
     (when (and system-configuration-options
 	       (not (equal system-configuration-options "")))
       (insert "Configured using:\n 'configure "
-- 
2.20.1