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

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This bug was fixed in the package apport - 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.3

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apport (2.20.9-0ubuntu7.3) bionic; urgency=medium

  [ Didier Roche ]
  * Add a remember option to whoopsie so that users can diminish
    crash interactions (LP: #1778497)
  * Move apport autoreport service files to apport binary package.
    Having them in apport-noui was creating a bug where autoreport
    wasn't working on desktop. As we check in the launched script
    for whoopsie and autoreport file, we don't autoreport by default.
    (LP: #1778694)
    apport-noui still touches the file to enable autoreport on install.
  * Remove upstart service and watershed dependency.
  * Assume if no whoopsie that crash reporting is enabled:
    As the old configuration that was a whoopsie configuration file that was
    that was never updated by the whoopsie API, we assume that no
    whoopsie installed (not the default) == manual send report is allowed.
    If people want to disable crash reporting:
    - get whoopsie installed and disable crash reporting in g-c-c
    - uninstall apport

  [ Brian Murray ]
  * Start apport-autoreport after installing apport-noui which is part of
    improving apport's automatic crash reporing feature. (LP: #1778694)

 -- Didier Roche <didrocks at ubuntu.com>  Tue, 10 Jul 2018 11:10:15 +0200

** Changed in: apport (Ubuntu Bionic)
       Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released

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

Status in apport package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in apport source package in Bionic:
  Fix Released

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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  We introduce 5 new strings to translate:
  "Can't remember send report status settings"
  "Saving crash reporting state failed. Can't set auto or never reporting mode."
  "Remember this in future"
  "Relaunch this application"
  "Don't send"

  We are reusing an existing transalted string "Send problem report to
  the developers?"

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