[Bug 1756937] [NEW] report_crashes setting not written

[Brian Murray]

Public bug reported:

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'.

** Affects: whoopsie (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Affects: whoopsie-preferences (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: bionic

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

** Tags added: bionic

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Title:
  report_crashes setting not written

Status in whoopsie package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in whoopsie-preferences package in Ubuntu:
  New

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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