apport-collect creates extraneous bug mail by doing attachments individually
Bug #352293 reported by
Jane Silber
This bug report is a duplicate of:
Bug #85040: allow attaching previously uploaded blobs (apport-style) to existing bugs.
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| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| apport (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: apport
The apport tools are very cool! But apport-collect collects a bunch of logs/config files and attaches them to the bug one by one. This generates a lot of bug mail, and a lot of vertical space in the bug page in Launchpad.
However, I note that the kernel variant (I think it is /usr/share/
Can apport-collect handle attachments that same way apportcheckresume does? (For reference, you can see examples of each at bug #348560 and bug #350178)
Revision history for this message
| Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in apport (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
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Unfortunately the current behaviour is the best we can do with launchpadlib. Merging bug mail for several attachments, or using the same method as for reporting a new bug would require changes in Launchpad. I requested them ages ago in bug 85040. I just did a followup in that bug, asking for these possibilities again.