[Bug 1689093] Re: Drop ubuntu-gnome hook for trusty, xenial

[Brian Murray]

The xorg package hooks contain something similar to what I had in mind
e.g.:

    version_signature = report.get('ProcVersionSignature', '') 
    if version_signature and not version_signature.startswith('Ubuntu '):
        report['UnreportableReason'] = 'The running kernel is not an Ubuntu kernel: %s' %version_signature
        return False

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Title:
  Drop ubuntu-gnome hook for trusty, xenial

Status in apport package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Impact
  ------
  As announced, the GNOME3 PPAs for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS are no longer being maintained as of April 2017. Therefore, the Ubuntu GNOME project would like to stop receiving bugs from packages installed from those PPAs for that version, or for 14.04 LTS which is no longer supported by Ubuntu GNOME.

  This is being done by dropping the special handling of the GNOME3 PPAs
  by apport and treat it as unsupported like any other PPA.

  See https://launchpad.net/~gnome3-team/+archive/ubuntu/gnome3

  Test Case
  ---------
  sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3
  sudo apt update
  sudo apt upgrade

  Ubuntu 14.04:
  ubuntu-bug gnome-system-monitor

  Ubuntu 16.04:
  ubuntu-bug nautilus

  What should happen:
  After several moments, you should see a popup with
  This is not an official Ubuntu package. Please remove any third party package and try again.

  Clean up:
  sudo apt install ppa-purge
  sudo ppa-purge ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3

  Regression Potential
  --------------------
  Well, people will be unable to report bugs with PPA packages like they used to. Hopefully, they'll be able to figure out why.

  Other Info
  ----------
  This change is not being made in currently supported releases.

  It would be nice if the ubuntu-gnome script in the future included the
  extra strings so that a more specific message could be presented on
  end of life for the GNOME3 PPAs, suggesting that they use ppa-purge.

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