[Bug 1778694] Re: In autoreport mode in whoopsie-preferences API, reports are not sent by whoopsie

[Sebastien Bacher]

It's not clear from the changelog/package history why -noui was a split package. It does depends on "apport" so doesn't pull in less components, if there is a config API and a way to use/not use the service I don't see the point of splitting the binary, I would just merge it back with apport. (unless the point was that installing the binary would mean enabling the feature and that the change result in a behaviour change for users who rely on that?)
Note that apport-noui depens on watershed which is currently in universe, but it looks like that was in main in the past so should be just a matter of re-promoting.

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Title:
  In autoreport mode in whoopsie-preferences API, reports are not sent
  by whoopsie

Status in apport package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  The goal for autoreporting via whoopsie is to have a silent mode where whoopsie automatically reports crashes. However, this one requires apport-noui to be installed, which we don't by default.
  apport-noui is just a set of systemd unit starting whoopsie-upload-all (part of apport binary package).

  There is 2 possible solutions:
  - promoting apport-noui to main, and seeding it.
  - or considering there is no reason anymore to have a separate apport-noui pacakge (no more phone factor), and so move the systemd units to apport, having a conditional file on whoopsie installed (no more dependency) and autoreport enabled, shipping those units binary package shipping those units (renamed to apport-autoreport.*) directly.

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