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

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This bug was fixed in the package apport - 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.3

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apport (2.20.9-0ubuntu7.3) bionic; urgency=medium

  [ Didier Roche ]
  * Add a remember option to whoopsie so that users can diminish
    crash interactions (LP: #1778497)
  * Move apport autoreport service files to apport binary package.
    Having them in apport-noui was creating a bug where autoreport
    wasn't working on desktop. As we check in the launched script
    for whoopsie and autoreport file, we don't autoreport by default.
    (LP: #1778694)
    apport-noui still touches the file to enable autoreport on install.
  * Remove upstart service and watershed dependency.
  * Assume if no whoopsie that crash reporting is enabled:
    As the old configuration that was a whoopsie configuration file that was
    that was never updated by the whoopsie API, we assume that no
    whoopsie installed (not the default) == manual send report is allowed.
    If people want to disable crash reporting:
    - get whoopsie installed and disable crash reporting in g-c-c
    - uninstall apport

  [ Brian Murray ]
  * Start apport-autoreport after installing apport-noui which is part of
    improving apport's automatic crash reporing feature. (LP: #1778694)

 -- Didier Roche <didrocks at ubuntu.com>  Tue, 10 Jul 2018 11:10:15 +0200

** Changed in: apport (Ubuntu Bionic)
       Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released

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

Status in apport package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in apport source package in Bionic:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  [ Impact ]
  * 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).
  We should move the unit to apport package itself.

  [ Test Case ]
  * Install the new apport package from proposed
  * Set in g-c-c, privacy panel, to report bugs automatically
  * Make one program dumping a core dump
  * Wait for a while, you should have a .upload and .uploaded files in addition to the .crash one in /var/crash

  [ Regression potential ]
  The systemd units were in apport-noui previously, we moved them and made them conditional to whoopsie being installed.
  apport-noui is still useful by turning autoreport on, so people upgrading shouldn't have any impact or difference.
  The units have been renamed to make sense and avoid package files overwrite.

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  There are 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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