remove limitation to only be able to report if the running kernel is no mainline kernel

Bug #1553163 reported by Karl-Philipp Richter
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
apport (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

Whilst it's necessary to enforce mainline kernel bugs to be directed upstream immediately it's not constructive to prevent reporting issues of an Ubuntu kernel if a mainline kernel is running, e.g. if the Ubuntu kernel 4.4.0-9-generic of 16.04 doesn't start, but the previously installed 4.2.5 mainline does, then the user might want to invoke `ubuntu-bug linux-image-4.4.0-9-generic` and report against the Ubuntu kernel, but can't because `apport` refuses since a mainline kernel is running.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.10
Package: apport 2.19.1-0ubuntu5
Uname: Linux 4.4.3-040403-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.19.1-0ubuntu5
Architecture: amd64
CrashReports: 600:0:116:629218:2016-02-29 21:56:39.476244786 +0100:2016-02-29 21:56:38.308256442 +0100:/var/crash/dlm.0.crash
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Fri Mar 4 12:56:25 2016
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-10-17 (868 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: apport
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to wily on 2015-11-19 (105 days ago)
modified.conffile..etc.default.apport:
 # set this to 0 to disable apport, or to 1 to enable it
 # you can temporarily override this with
 # sudo service apport start force_start=1
 enabled=0
mtime.conffile..etc.default.apport: 2013-10-21T23:07:05.378054

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Karl-Philipp Richter (krichter722) wrote :
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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

There may be some concern here about apport gathering information about the kernel not in use. Like maybe /proc/fb is different or something.

Changed in apport (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Triaged
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