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

[Sebastien Bacher]

The changes described make sense to me, thanks.

I'm not convinced that "apport-noui" is right/makes sense (if you
install it and use the API to disable autoreporting you end up with the
package installed but the service no started which is inconsistent with
the definition) but it's a different topic that the problem discussed
here

Note that my previous comment about watershed can be ignored, that was
used only in the upstart job which is deprecated, the depends can be
removed at the same time as the job in cosmic.

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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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