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Re:Audacity fork without any sentry telemetry or crash repor... by orf on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @04:54PM (#27765625)
> Crash reporting: Why not just generate a crashreport-date.txt and allow the user to save it and email it to you? Why should they be forced to report it?

nobody does this. It’s such an utterly naive statement and exactly in keeping with others in this discussion. It also doesn’t catch non-terminating errors.

> Why not stay on old version or rely on package managers which do that for you?

Why would you want this? This also doesn’t work for Windows.

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Re:Audacity fork without any sentry telemetry or crash repor... by totony on Friday July 09, 2021 @11:21PM (#27790871)
>Why would you want this?

Because maybe an old version works good enough for your needs. Every software having auto updates is the reason package managers don't catch on on windows. Then you see every single software having bulky planned tasks/start on boot auto updaters.

>nobody does this

Core/crash dumps are exactly that.

>It also doesn’t catch non-terminating errors.

Why wouldn't it?

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