[Bug 1673557] Re: /proc/cpuinfo should be collected

[Brian Murray]

** Description changed:

- apport does not currently collect data from /proc/cpuinfo and this would
- be useful to determine how many users can only run the i386 version of
- Ubuntu.
+ [Impact]
+ While some apport reports contain ProcCpuinfo not all of them do and it would be useful to determine how many users can only run the i386 version of Ubuntu. Additionally, the existing implementation gathers information about every processor which is quite lengthy - something smaller would be better.
+ 
+ [Test Case]
+ 1. Run ubuntu-bug 2vcard
+ 2. Observe there is no report key ProcCpuinfoMinimal
+ With the version of the package from -proposed you will have ProcCpuinfoMinimal which will contain information about your processor.
+ 
+ [Regression Potential]
+ This exists in Zesty, and Artful and there have been no issues collecting the information. Even if there are errors in the general ubuntu hook, which was modified for this SRU, apport will continue collecting information for the report and just add a traceback to the report about the hook error.
  
  The general Ubuntu hook, possibly add_kernel_info() could be used,
  should be modified such that the contents of /proc/cpuinfo are gathered.

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Title:
  /proc/cpuinfo should be collected

Status in apport package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in whoopsie package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in apport source package in Trusty:
  New
Status in whoopsie source package in Trusty:
  New
Status in apport source package in Xenial:
  New
Status in whoopsie source package in Xenial:
  New
Status in apport source package in Yakkety:
  In Progress
Status in whoopsie source package in Yakkety:
  New

Bug description:
  [Impact]
  While some apport reports contain ProcCpuinfo not all of them do and it would be useful to determine how many users can only run the i386 version of Ubuntu. Additionally, the existing implementation gathers information about every processor which is quite lengthy - something smaller would be better.

  [Test Case]
  1. Run ubuntu-bug 2vcard
  2. Observe there is no report key ProcCpuinfoMinimal
  With the version of the package from -proposed you will have ProcCpuinfoMinimal which will contain information about your processor.

  [Regression Potential]
  This exists in Zesty, and Artful and there have been no issues collecting the information. Even if there are errors in the general ubuntu hook, which was modified for this SRU, apport will continue collecting information for the report and just add a traceback to the report about the hook error.

  The general Ubuntu hook, possibly add_kernel_info() could be used,
  should be modified such that the contents of /proc/cpuinfo are
  gathered.

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