How can I prevent `abrt` deleting duplicate, and/or unusable reports?

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As a temporary workaround, deleting the problem in gnome-abrt (abrt remove isn’t sufficient), [1] then reproducing it, appears to remediate this, [2] thereby allowing me to bypass t/132081/27. [3] [4]

    1. RokeJulianLockhart@Beedell:~$ abrt list
Id           876eb19  
Component    chromium  
Count        3  
Time         2025-08-28 12:51:32  
User id      1000 (RokeJulianLockhart)  
Reported to    
ABRT Server  https://retrace.fedoraproject.org/faf/reports/bthash/06955e65649a3880dc66f61a7767a685d8e154fd

    2. RokeJulianLockhart@Beedell:~$ abrt remove 876eb19
Id            876eb19  
Component     chromium  
Count         3  
Time          2025-08-28 12:51:32  
Command line  $'/usr/lib64/chromium-browser/chromium-browser --type=gpu-process --enable-gpu-rasterization --enable-native-gpu-memory-buffers --use-angle=gl --crashpad-handler-pid=7838 --enable-crash-reporter=,Fedora Project --disable-breakpad --change-stack-guard-on-fork=enable --gpu-preferences=UAAAAAAAAAAgAAAYAAAAAAAAAAAAAGAAAQAAAAAAAAAAAQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYAAAAAAAAABgAAAAAAAAAAQAAAAAAAAAIAAAAAAAAAAgAAAAAAAAA --use-gl=angle --shared-files --metrics-shmem-handle=4,i,5956773514937297173,3597146344334645978,262144 --field-trial-handle=3,i,14338598026711943823,14963882441025114410,262144 --enable-features=AcceleratedVideoDecodeLinuxGL,AcceleratedVideoEncoder --disable-features=EyeDropper --variations-seed-version'  
Package       chromium-139.0.7258.138-1.fc42  
User id       1000 (RokeJulianLockhart)  
Path          /var/spool/abrt/ccpp-2025-08-28-12:51:32.136516-7877  
Reported to     
ABRT Server   https://retrace.fedoraproject.org/faf/reports/bthash/06955e65649a3880dc66f61a7767a685d8e154fd 

Are you sure you want to delete this problem? [y/N] y
Removed
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    1. Id           926d49e  
Component    chromium  
Count        1  
Time         2025-10-22 22:24:34  
User id      1000 (RokeJulianLockhart)

    2. RokeJulianLockhart@Beedell:~$ abrt report 926d49e
Reporting problem 926d49e

no actions matching this problem found for event 'collect_GConf'
no actions matching this problem found for event 'collect_vimrc_system'
no actions matching this problem found for event 'collect_vimrc_user'
no actions matching this problem found for event 'collect_xsession_errors'
('report_uReport' completed successfully)
Generating backtrace
Backtrace is generated and saved, 163312 bytes
Looking for similar problems in bugzilla
Bugzilla API key: $key

No changes were detected in the report
Checking for duplicates
Creating a new bug...
Adding External URL to bug 2405937
Adding attachments to bug 2405937
Status: NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2405937
('post_report' completed successfully)
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    1. Id           2edadf7  
Component    chromium  
Count        2  
Time         2025-10-18 12:23:38  
User id      1000 (RokeJulianLockhart)  
Reported to    
ABRT Server  https://retrace.fedoraproject.org/faf/reports/bthash/6223aaeeb54d9a2aeac4a0ff0af1afde40cb2818

    2. RokeJulianLockhart@Beedell:~$ abrt report 2edadf7
Reporting problem 2edadf7

no actions matching this problem found for event 'collect_GConf'
no actions matching this problem found for event 'collect_vimrc_system'
no actions matching this problem found for event 'collect_vimrc_user'
no actions matching this problem found for event 'collect_xsession_errors'
('report_uReport' completed successfully)
Generating backtrace
Backtrace is generated and saved, 61793 bytes
Looking for similar problems in bugzilla
Reporting is disabled because the generated backtrace has low informational value.
Please try to install debuginfo manually using the command: "dnf debuginfo-install chromium-141.0.7390.76-1.fc42" and try again.
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  4. bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2405937#c11 ↩︎