Comment 2 for bug 361543

(copied from the duplicate bug)

The confusing file "/etc/default/apport.default" was added silently in version 0.149: no hint in the changelog file.

I just upgraded to version 1.0-0ubuntu4, and it is worse, because both files have different settings. And the last change occurs in the wrong file:
  "Disable Apport by default for the final release."

user@jaunty$ diff -u /etc/default/apport*
--- /etc/default/apport 2009-03-05 15:41:19.000000000 +0100
+++ /etc/default/apport.default 2009-04-14 11:55:25.000000000 +0200
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # set this to 0 to disable apport, or to 1 to enable it
 # you can temporarily override this with
 # sudo force_start=1 /etc/init.d/apport start
-enabled=1
+enabled=0

 # set maximum core dump file size (default: 209715200 bytes == 200 MB)
 maxsize=209715200
user@jaunty$ sed -n '14p;23p' /etc/init.d/apport
NAME=apport
[ -e /etc/default/$NAME ] && . /etc/default/$NAME || true