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[Rolf Leggewie <974750@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

raring has seen the end of its life and is no longer receiving any
updates. Marking the raring task for this ticket as "Won't Fix".

** Changed in: xdiagnose (Ubuntu Raring)
       Status: New => Won't Fix

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Title:
  Support gathering arbitrary display manager logs

Status in xdiagnose package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in xdiagnose source package in Quantal:
  Won't Fix
Status in xdiagnose source package in Raring:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  Add support for gathering gdm and other display manager logs if the
  display manager is being currently used.

  In xdiagnose 2.3 and earlier we collected gdm logs (as well as
  lightdm), but going forward we only collect the lightdm logs.  Users
  who have upgraded from past releases will have the old gdm logs
  hanging around, but if the user is on lightdm those will be of no
  value.

  The reason the gdm logs are no longer collected are threefold:  1.
  avoid collecting cruft files, 2.  the logs are root-only readable due
  to potential for containing sensitive info (hostnames and so on) so
  dropping them slightly reduces risk of sensitive info leakage, and 3.
  the files are optional to begin with (we prompt the user if they want
  to include them).  There is a very narrow, rare class of issue where
  we need these files (basically, if X is plain not starting), so having
  to manually ask for the files isn't going to burden us too much.

  However, it would be nice to have a more generalized but
  discriminating mechanism to identify the correct display manager log
  files, in case the user is running xdm, gdm, or other display
  managers.  It should also check timestamps on files and not include
  ancient ones.

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