[Bug 1756937] Re: report_crashes setting not written

[Brian Murray]

Additionally in 18.04 there is nothing like "Send occasional system
information to Canonical" in gnome-control-center - only the report
crashes option appears.

** Also affects: whoopsie (Ubuntu Bionic)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Also affects: whoopsie-preferences (Ubuntu Bionic)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: whoopsie-preferences (Ubuntu Bionic)
       Status: New => Invalid

** Changed in: whoopsie (Ubuntu Bionic)
       Status: New => In Progress

** Changed in: whoopsie (Ubuntu Bionic)
   Importance: Undecided => Medium

** Changed in: whoopsie (Ubuntu Bionic)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Brian Murray (brian-murray)

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Title:
  report_crashes setting not written

Status in whoopsie package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in whoopsie-preferences package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in whoopsie source package in Bionic:
  In Progress
Status in whoopsie-preferences source package in Bionic:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  whoopsie was built with two settings, report_metrics (statistics like
  popcon - currently unused) and report_crashes (for reporting crash
  reports to the Error Tracker). However, only report_metrics gets
  written to '/etc/whoopsie' while the setting for report_crashes is
  defined by having whoopsie.disable. This complicates matters as there
  are two places to look for whoopsie settings '/etc/whoopsie' and
  checking for a .disable file. It'd be best if "report_crashes" was
  also written to '/etc/whoopsie'.

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