Bug#475398: tasksel: add kerneloops to standard task

[Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>]

On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 01:38:30PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
> I installed it without problems on my KDE desktop. It's dependencies look 
> sane (did not pull in any new packages in my case) and the default 
> configuration is to ask to be allowed to submit.
> 
> Only remaining question is how it works on systems that do not have a 
> graphical environment installed, especially with the default of "ask".

If you're not running a graphical interface, with the default of 'ask',
nothing's going to listen for kerneloops dbus messages, so the daemon
will never be signalled to send oopses.

You can, of course, change the default in /etc/kerneloops.conf from 'ask'
to 'always'.  Do you think we need a debconf question to set this up?
Or a note to let people know they can activate it?

My opinion is that this will still be useful even if people with headless
servers don't activate it.  I think many more people encounter kernel
bugs on desktop Debian machines than they do on servers.

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