[Bug 1689093] Re: Drop ubuntu-gnome hook for trusty, xenial

[Jeremy Bicha]

> Are there cases where the report would be a package other than a
GNOME3 one and it would include dependencies from the GNOME3 ppa?

Yes, the GNOME3 PPA for 16.04 LTS includes GTK 3.20, but people should
still run ppa-purge to get themselves back on to a supported Ubuntu
system.

Also, I thought you might update the hook to only emit
UnreportableReason if the release is Xenial (or Trusty) so that we can
use the same hook in artful.

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Title:
  Drop ubuntu-gnome hook for trusty, xenial

Status in apport package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Impact
  ------
  As announced, the GNOME3 PPAs for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS are no longer being maintained as of April 2017. Therefore, the Ubuntu GNOME project would like to stop receiving bugs from packages installed from those PPAs for that version, or for 14.04 LTS which is no longer supported by Ubuntu GNOME.

  See https://launchpad.net/~gnome3-team/+archive/ubuntu/gnome3

  Test Case
  ---------
  sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3
  sudo apt update
  sudo apt upgrade

  Ubuntu 14.04:
  ubuntu-bug gnome-system-monitor

  Ubuntu 16.04:
  ubuntu-bug nautilus

  What should happen:
  After several moments, you should see a popup with
  The GNOME3 PPA is no longer supported for this Ubuntu release. Please run ppa-purge ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3

  Clean up:
  sudo apt install ppa-purge
  sudo ppa-purge ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3

  Other Info
  ----------
  Ubuntu GNOME has always installed ppa-purge by default.

  Regression Potential
  --------------------
  People will be unable to report bugs with PPA packages like they used to but they'll be told why. The message unfortunately likely won't be translated right away, but since it will land in the development release, it should eventually be translated for future Ubuntu releases.

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