The premise is that we can never automatically make a bug public if it
still has attachments, since they might contain sensitive information
like credit card numbers in core dumps.
A while ago the QA team asked me to make bugs which are detected as
duplicate public, so that it's easier to see which bugs are the really
bad ones which we need to tackle (counting is much harder with private
bugs). But then we can safely remove the apport-generated attachments,
since the master bug already has them as well.
The alternative would be to leave all the duplicates private with their
attachments intact, but that would both store a lot of redundant data as
well as be much less useful.
** Changed in: apport (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Won't Fix
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Apport removes attachments on public bugs when marked as duplicates of private
bug
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/421096
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