[Bug 1778497] [NEW] Add a remember option to whoopsie so that users can diminish crash interactions

[Didier Roche]

Public bug reported:

[ Impact ]
A lot of users are bother by the number of whoopsie dialog. We introduced on "G-C-C privacy option don't allow sending manual report" bug (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/1774597) a way for users to change from always reporting manually (prompting an UI) to auto reporting or never reporting, via a "Remember this in future".

This only impacts the apport gtk UI, still offering the underlying
capability to other UIs type without changing them.

This was a goal for 18.04, but due to a lack of time, we want to
introduce this in 18.04.1

[ Test Case ]
 * There are multiples dialog forms (a good 20 of them), but they are all covered by unit tests which have been updates. One use case would be:
 * Install the new version and trigger a crash
 * Check that the dialog has a "Remember this in future" option, check it, and click send.
 * Check in g-c-c UI, privacy option, that the crash reporting is now in auto mode, always send.
 * Revert in g-c-c to manual
 * Create another crash, check "Remember this…" and click don't send
 * Check in g-c-c UI that crash reporting is now disabled.

[ Regression potential ]
 * The impacted code is both UI and fileutils. It's covered by an extensive testsuite, and checking under KDE has also been done to not trigger a crash.

** Affects: apport (Ubuntu)
     Importance: High
     Assignee: Didier Roche (didrocks)
         Status: New

** Affects: apport (Ubuntu Bionic)
     Importance: High
     Assignee: Didier Roche (didrocks)
         Status: New

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

** Changed in: apport (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Didier Roche (didrocks)

** Changed in: apport (Ubuntu Bionic)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Didier Roche (didrocks)

** Changed in: apport (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => High

** Changed in: apport (Ubuntu Bionic)
   Importance: Undecided => High

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Title:
  Add a remember option to whoopsie so that users can diminish crash
  interactions

Status in apport package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in apport source package in Bionic:
  New

Bug description:
  [ Impact ]
  A lot of users are bother by the number of whoopsie dialog. We introduced on "G-C-C privacy option don't allow sending manual report" bug (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/1774597) a way for users to change from always reporting manually (prompting an UI) to auto reporting or never reporting, via a "Remember this in future".

  This only impacts the apport gtk UI, still offering the underlying
  capability to other UIs type without changing them.

  This was a goal for 18.04, but due to a lack of time, we want to
  introduce this in 18.04.1

  [ Test Case ]
   * There are multiples dialog forms (a good 20 of them), but they are all covered by unit tests which have been updates. One use case would be:
   * Install the new version and trigger a crash
   * Check that the dialog has a "Remember this in future" option, check it, and click send.
   * Check in g-c-c UI, privacy option, that the crash reporting is now in auto mode, always send.
   * Revert in g-c-c to manual
   * Create another crash, check "Remember this…" and click don't send
   * Check in g-c-c UI that crash reporting is now disabled.

  [ Regression potential ]
   * The impacted code is both UI and fileutils. It's covered by an extensive testsuite, and checking under KDE has also been done to not trigger a crash.

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