On Sat, Dec 30, 2017 at 03:59:13PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > When it thinks this, it defaults to a mode where it wants to make > anything submitted to Bugzilla private, and it seems that in this mode, > even when it knows a report is a dupe, it won't just add a comment to > the parent bug, allegedly because it can't make a comment sufficiently > private (I'm not sure on the details of that particular wrinkle). The new bugs are private to ‘fedora_contrib_private’, but ... > Instead it files a new private bug and immediately closes it as a > duplicate of the original bug. You can change this - there's a checkbox > during the report workflow which decides the behaviour, when abrt > thinks the report contains sensitive data it defaults to being checked, > and you can uncheck it if you know it's a false positive - but of > course most reporters don't bother with this. .. I don't believe it's closing these as duplicates, so maybe it's not this? Here's an example of yet another new bug (which you won't be able to see unless you are in ‘fedora_contrib_private’): https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1529983 > I can think of several things we could do to try and mitigate this (for > instance, when just adding a comment to a parent bug abrt doesn't > actually *attach* any of the files that might contain sensitive data, > so there isn't an awful lot of validity to this behaviour at all), but > they'd all sort of require the devs to be around :/ > > I guess in theory a BZ admin might be able to somehow block the abrt > account from filing bugs against a specific component temporarily, but > again, the BZ admins are RH staff, and they're probably not working... The good news is that Ravindra from VMware has just pushed an update which ought to fix this mess. Here's hoping :-) Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-df lists disk usage of guests without needing to install any software inside the virtual machine. Supports Linux and Windows. http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/ _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
