Do not show crashes if whoopsie is not installed

[Chris Bainbridge]

It appears that apport now requires the whoopsie package to be installed, but it is not an actual package dependency.

Diagnosis:

Following bug #997283 (Apport no longer uploads bugs to Launchpad), I noticed that I do not have whoopsie installed. I ran wireshark and apport-bug to see if any data was actually being transferred. It wasn't, even though 'echo $?' showed the exit status as success.

I then installed whoopsie and repeated the test. This time, data was transferred to 91.189.88.133 which appears to be eth0.chenet.canonical.com.

Can I conclude that apport now requires whoopsie?

$ apt-cache rdepends whoopsie
whoopsie
Reverse Depends:
  whoopsie:i386
  activity-log-manager-control-center:i386
  activity-log-manager-control-center:i386
  ubuntu-desktop
  activity-log-manager-control-center
  activity-log-manager-control-center

I am not running ubuntu-desktop, so I don't have whoopsie installed. If apport requires whoopsie to function, then it should be listed as a direct dependency.

[Ryan Kitty (gothickitty93)]

Changed to Confirmed because this bug affects more than one person.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Retitling. Apport does not need whoopsie, so depending on it is wrong. But it should not pretend to send crash reports if whoopsie is not installed. In a way this is a duplicate of bug 957177, because it's one consequence of bolting on whoopsie support at the side instead of supporting it properly.