[Bug 888749] [NEW] xdiagnose declares unnecessary dependency on apport

[Thomas Bushnell, BSG]

Public bug reported:

xdiagnose currently declares a dependency on apport. This is not
necessary; it seems that xdiagnose includes some apport hooks, but
that's fine to do (and the rest of the package runs fine) without apport
present. This dependency should be changed to a Recommends or Suggests.

The reason is that xdiagnose is useful even if an installation doesn't
want its machines reporting upstream, and apport tends to do that. This
is a regression (of sorts) from lucid, in which nothing important
depends on apport.

** Affects: shadow (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  xdiagnose declares unnecessary dependency on apport

Status in “shadow” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  xdiagnose currently declares a dependency on apport. This is not
  necessary; it seems that xdiagnose includes some apport hooks, but
  that's fine to do (and the rest of the package runs fine) without
  apport present. This dependency should be changed to a Recommends or
  Suggests.

  The reason is that xdiagnose is useful even if an installation doesn't
  want its machines reporting upstream, and apport tends to do that.
  This is a regression (of sorts) from lucid, in which nothing important
  depends on apport.

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