[Bug 1831351] Re: Please provide option to continue bug report from different computer

[Brian Murray]

** Changed in: apport (Ubuntu)
       Status: Incomplete => Confirmed

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

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Title:
  Please provide option to continue bug report from different computer

Status in apport package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  There are some situations where it is desirable to gather debugging
  information on a system affected by a bug, but to login (to
  Launchpad/Ubuntu SSO) and complete editing this bug report from a
  different system.

  This is already implemented for situations where the affected system
  runs headless, i.e. servers without a graphical display. However, this
  should also be a user choice exposed as a command line option to
  ubuntu-bug (which, at least according to --help it currently is not).

  A common use case where this would be nice to have is testing software
  in a VM, but not wanting to expose Ubuntu SSO credentials to this VM
  (e.g. for security concerns). Another use case is a need to report a
  serious bug in the default web browser where this web browser is
  unable to access any websites.

  There is a workaround:
    DISPLAY= ubuntu-bug somepackage
  Unfortunately this means the debugging data collection phase will provide a text-only UI instead of the nicer / more user-friendly GTK one.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
  Package: apport 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.6
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.0.0-15.16~18.04.1-generic 5.0.6
  Uname: Linux 5.0.0-15-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.6
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
  Date: Sun Jun  2 01:24:07 2019
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: apport
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  mtime.conffile..etc.apport.crashdb.conf: 2019-01-17T11:47:59.939850

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