[09:53] <alwyn> Does this channel have a public log? :)
[09:53] <alwyn> Wondering if my question yesterday was answered
[09:57] <rbasak> alwyn: irclogs.ubuntu.com
[09:57] <alwyn> rbasak: thank you, found it :)
[09:57] <alwyn> Apparently it was not answered :(
[09:58] <rbasak> I don't think your question is really answerable.
[09:58] <rbasak> Besides "because nobody has".
[10:00] <alwyn> Is it a lot of work to do? I might be interested in helping out, provided it doesn't take hours to read the proper procedures to do so first ~.~
[10:05] <rbasak> Looks like the fix is backportable, and somebody has done it in a PPA, but nobody has replied with positive test results. Comment 15 doesn't make sense to me.
[10:06] <rbasak> Procedure here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#Procedure
[10:06] <rbasak> If you've not dealt with patching distribution packages before, it will take you a while to read up.
[10:45] <alwyn> That's more or less what I was afraid of :P I wish I had the time do read all that but unfortunately I do not.
[10:46] <alwyn> read+actually do it I mean
[18:14] <ali1234> hi. can you please make launchpad not mark public bugs as duplicates of private ones?
[18:15] <ali1234> bug 1628250
[18:18] <ali1234> this prevents me from getting a retrace, discussing the bug, or generally interacting with it in any way
[18:20] <teward> ali1234: the bug is marked private because nobody has gone through to make sure sensitive info is removed from the bug.
[18:20] <ali1234> yes, i know
[18:21] <ali1234> i went through *my* bug to make sure it had no private information and marked it public
[18:21] <ali1234> but then apport just marked it as a duplicate of the private one
[18:21] <ali1234> which is stupid
[18:21] <teward> ali1234: but the bug that's been marked *as* a duplicate hasn't gone through that process
[18:21] <teward> that's why it's still private
[18:21] <ali1234> no
[18:21] <ali1234> bug 1665048
[18:21] <teward> yes, actually.  (If dupe == private, originalPost is hidden)
[18:22] <teward> at least, in a sense.
[18:22] <ali1234> it is not hidden from me
[18:22] <ali1234> looks like it is hidden from the bot though
[18:22] <teward> ali1234: the issue is that the crash has already been reported - we don't need fifteen reports on the same crash which is why the retracer exists
[18:22] <ali1234> well here's the thing
[18:23] <ali1234> nobody is going to fix it until someone makes a bug report public
[18:23] <ali1234> which i have just done for exactly that reason
[18:23] <ali1234> but apport won't allow me to do this
[18:23] <ali1234> it just tells me to discuss it on the other bug (which i can't access)
[18:25] <ali1234> here is what apport should do instead: if it determines that two reports are the same bug, and one is public and the other is private, then the private one should be made a duplicate of the public one
[18:26] <teward> that's a #launchpad question i believe on "How to make the retracer better"
[18:31] <ali1234> i can't find it :(
[18:32] <teward> no i'm saying that's soimething you should ask about there about how the retracer works, I don't know enough about that to answer reliably.
[18:32] <ali1234> https://answers.launchpad.net/launchpad/+question/237214 is the same issue
[18:32] <ali1234> from 2013
[18:33] <ali1234> and https://answers.launchpad.net/launchpad/+question/182866 from 2011
[18:33] <ali1234> which points to this bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apport/+bug/764414
[18:34] <ali1234> which is 6 years old and has like 25 duplicates
[18:43] <ali1234> commented. i guess i'll just move on to fixing something else :/