Call for testing - apport snap

[Brian Murray]

I wanted to make it known that I've created an initial snap of apport.
There is still more work to be done to make it more widely useful, but
I'd like to get the community's input on the status so far. For
information on other work already planned for this snap see:

https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/snap-apport

That being said, it is currently installable by using 'snap install
--channel beta --devmode apport'.  The snap will create barebones
reports for any application (snap or package in the core system) which
crashes. The reports will be stored in /var/snap/apport/current/crash.
Currently, a report will need to be updated using apport-cli, included
in the snap, like so:

sudo apport.apport-cli
/var/snap/apport/current/crash/_usr_sbin_sshd.0.crash

I'm still working out some details of creating the Package field in the
report, but in the example above one could add "Package: openssh-server
1:7.2p2-4ubuntu2.1" to the crash file and have a report which could be
retraced from another system. At this point in time whoopsie is not
integrated and the crashes will not be sent to the Error Tracker.

If you install the snap I'm interested to hear any feedback and
particularly about any crash reports you find in the crash directory.

Thanks,
--
Brian Murray
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