Bzrlib updates of last evening appear to have created a bug in bzr-svn

[John Arbash Meinel]

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Russel Winder wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-05-12 at 09:12 +0200, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
>> On Wed, 2010-05-12 at 07:48 +0100, Russel Winder wrote:
>>> I have reported
>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bzr/+bug/579140, I just wanted
>>> to point out that last night's changes to bzrlib appear to have broken
>>> bzr-svn so that it always fails for any update of a Bazaar checkout of a
>>> Subversion repository branch.
>>>
>>> I appreciate this is a consequence of using bzr.dev so there is no
>>> criticism of any sort implied -- it is just something that will happen
>>> from time to time.  I wonder though if this indicates a need for some
>>> sort of continuous integration test for all the core plugins so that
>>> there is place where people can go to check whether this is a local
>>> problem or a global problem? 
>> Is that bug marked private? I don't appear to have the permission to
>> view it.
> 
> It seems Apport marks bug private as a first step.  It is not clear to
> me who is responsible for changing a report from private to something
> else and when that should happen.
> 
> In my role as "irritated lazy user" (!) I just click "do it" when the
> dialogue box appears saying "do you want to report this bug".  So apart
> from the actual report where I just cut and past the terminal output and
> attaching the crash file everything is as Apport handles it. 
> 
> I have manually made it public.
> 
> I guess we are shaking down Launchpad stuff here?
> 

So apport reports can contain a core dump, which contain private bits of
information. So they get marked as private, and a separate batch job
reads these reports, strips the core dump and gives a proper sanitized
traceback, and then marks the bug public.

John
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