"The system detected a problem, do you want to report it?" dialog

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sat, 25 Aug 2018 14:22:33 +0200, Oliver Grawert wrote:
>data is anonymized, whoopsie got massively improved since it got added
>in 12.04 to not massively hit system ressources anymore. check a 16.04
>install (if you have one), you should see "enabled=1"
>in /etc/default/apport there.
>
>dont trust wiki data

In which way is data "anonymized"? There should be a reliable source
available, explaining detailed how this is granted. IMO it's impossible
to grant this.

[weremouse at moonstudio ~]$ lsb_release -a
LSB Version:	core-9.20160110ubuntu0.2-amd64:core-9.20160110ubuntu0.2-noarch:security-9.20160110ubuntu0.2-amd64:security-9.20160110ubuntu0.2-noarch
Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
Description:	Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS
Release:	16.04
Codename:	xenial
[weremouse at moonstudio ~]$ ls -l /etc/default/apport
ls: cannot access '/etc/default/apport': No such file or directory
[weremouse at moonstudio ~]$ apt list -qqa 'whoopsie'
whoopsie/xenial-updates 0.2.52.5 amd64
whoopsie/xenial 0.2.52 amd64

[weremouse at moonstudio ~]$ apt list -qqa 'apport'
apport/xenial-updates,xenial-updates,xenial-security,xenial-security 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.18 all
apport/xenial,xenial 2.20.1-0ubuntu2 all

You even wouldn't find harmless, but redundant software on my Linux
installs, e.g.

[weremouse at moonstudio ~]$ apt list -qqa '*command-not-found*'
command-not-found/xenial-updates,xenial-updates 0.3ubuntu16.04.2 all
command-not-found/xenial,xenial 0.3ubuntu16.04 all

command-not-found-data/xenial-updates 0.3ubuntu16.04.2 amd64
command-not-found-data/xenial 0.3ubuntu16.04 amd64

While I've got permission to edit the Wiki, I don't have any source of
information to edit the Wiki correctly. Let alone that I'm an opponent.
A seconder with enough information should edit the Wiki.

I don't see how any changes to apport and whoopsie could at lest make
those arguments invalid:

"During the development release we already collect thousands of crash
reports, much more than we can ever fix. Continuing to collect those
for stable releases is not really useful, since

    The most important crashes have already been discovered in the
    development release.

    The less important ones are not suitable for getting fixed in
    stable releases (see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates

    Asking users to send crash reports to us is insincere, since we
    can't possibly answer and deal with all of them."