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[Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Apport currently doesn't consider ProcMaps in anonymization, as for
non-/home paths we depend on having correct path names. But I have an
idea how to anonymize this less aggressively: one could first check if
the path belongs to a packaged file, and anonymize it only if it isn't.

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Title:
  ProcMaps.txt may contain private information such as username

Status in “apport” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  The ProcMaps.txt file that gets uploaded to Launchpad may contain
  private information such as username that can be obtained from the
  path of the home directory.

  7fbd44c33000-7fbd44c34000 r--s 00000000 08:01 1306557
  /home/alice/.local/share/mime/mime.cache

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