[Bug 1289604] Re: ubuntu-release-upgrader doesn't depend on python-apport

[Steve Langasek]

Hello Brian, or anyone else affected,

Accepted ubuntu-release-upgrader into saucy-proposed. The package will
build now and be available at http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source
/ubuntu-release-upgrader/1:0.205.5 in a few hours, and then in the
-proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package.  See
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to
enable and use -proposed.  Your feedback will aid us getting this update
out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug,
mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag
from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the
bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to
verification-failed.  In either case, details of your testing will help
us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification .  Thank you in
advance!

** Tags added: verification-needed

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Title:
  ubuntu-release-upgrader doesn't depend on python-apport

Status in “update-manager” package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in “update-manager” source package in Saucy:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  Description:
  A default Saucy system will not have python-apport installed and the crash handler in the release upgrade tarball needs python-apport to be able to create a crash report.  Subsequently, we may not be receiving crash reports for every release upgrade crash.
  The release upgrader runs with python2 because it needs to run on Precise and Saucy.

  Test Case:
  1) run python /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeApport.py (we are using python here because the release upgrader runs with python2 not 3)
  2) notice a failed to import apport python module error message

  With the package from -proposed you should receive a "Crash report"
  dialog saying that 'do-release-upgrade has stopped unexpectedly'.  Do
  not submit the crash report.

  This is because ubuntu-release-upgrader doesn't depend on python-
  apport and it is no longer depended on by anything else.  I mean that
  package used to be installl on most Ubuntu systems because apport or
  ubuntuone-client depended on it.

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