Extracting information from the corefile on the local machine would
involve downloading and installing all the corresponding -dbg packages
for all packages and libraries associated with the crashed process. Many
users do not have the bandwidth nor storage space to install gigabytes
of -dbg packages to just run a quick stack trace.

Thus, this compromise of sending the corefile to our retracers, which do
have the bandwidth and storage, and automatically strip the coredump
from launchpad once the stack trace has been generated.

I personally feel that the safeguards are strong enough that I do choose
to submit my own corefiles through this service, but that is because I
have good visibility on how the corefiles are handled. I can easily
understand how someone else may come to a different conclusion, though,
without this visibility.

Thanks

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