Disabling whoopsie by default in the 12.04.1 release

[Martin Pitt]

Dylan McCall [2012-08-06 10:49 -0700]:
> I don't run a computer lab, but I did upgrade someone's computer to
> Ubuntu 12.04. A few days later, I felt like a total jerk as I stepped
> him through disabling error popups using terminal commands.

Admittedly I have done this to the Ubuntu box of my sister as well
after she called me about all those popups (although I have ssh
access, so it was a lot easier for me to disable it myself). First,
she does not have any clue about computers and the unexpected popups
confuse her, and second she only has a rather limited 3G connection
and really shouldn't upload Jigabytes of crash dumps without her
knowledge.

I felt bad when doing it, but after all she wants to use her computer,
not spend her time with crash reports.

For computer labs I expect that apport will be turned off wholesale
anyway. There are enough HowTos in the interwebs to tell people how to
do it, and with proxies/firewalls/or simply company policies about
secrecy/privacy being around, we probably won't hear about many
problems anyway.

Martin

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