Comment 12 for bug 1830862

Hi Alex (and Brian),

To answer the question that you asked Brian: the apport configuration support does look useful to me, so I wouldn't get rid it. It is useful for a developer who wants to get crash reports for a new application that they are developing. By default, Apport only generates crash reports for executables that live in an official directory, like /usr/bin/. But if the crashing application was started from a non-standard directory, like the user's home directory, then Apport doesn't create a report. But you can override that behavior by creating a file named ~/.config/apport/settings and putting the following contents in it:

[main]
unpackaged=1

Thanks,

Kev