[Bug 1778694] Re: In autoreport mode in whoopsie-preferences API, reports are not sent by whoopsie

[Didier Roche]

FTR, discussed with Brian, my proposed solution sounds to make sense, keeping an unseeded apport-noui:
- have the systemd units (path and service) moved to apport binary package
- let apport-noui only touching/remove in maintainerscript script the autoreport file (this is the same file created by whoopsie when using its API for autoreporting)
- as we loose the dep on whoopsie, ensure the script detects whoopsie presence (even if disabled) for autoreporting, otherwise, fallback to showing the UI.

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Title:
  In autoreport mode in whoopsie-preferences API, reports are not sent
  by whoopsie

Status in apport package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  The goal for autoreporting via whoopsie is to have a silent mode where whoopsie automatically reports crashes. However, this one requires apport-noui to be installed, which we don't by default.
  apport-noui is just a set of systemd unit starting whoopsie-upload-all (part of apport binary package).

  There is 2 possible solutions:
  - promoting apport-noui to main, and seeding it.
  - or considering there is no reason anymore to have a separate apport-noui pacakge (no more phone factor), and so move the systemd units to apport, having a conditional file on whoopsie installed (no more dependency) and autoreport enabled, shipping those units binary package shipping those units (renamed to apport-autoreport.*) directly.

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