[Bug 1471903] Re: -updates, -security missing from apt lists

[Robie Basak]

ogra asked on IRC to wait until the phone product team can comment on
Monday.

Here's how it sounds to me (my attempt at a summary):

0) apport-cli and user crash reporting is broken because the -security
and -update apt lists are missing.

1) It isn't ideal for apt lists to be shipped in the image since they
use up space and can be downloaded later.

2) Downloading later would involve medium-sized changes to apport.

3) We're already shipping most of the apt lists already anyway, just not
the -security and -updates lists that would add ~4.9MB to the size.

4) So the options to fix this are:
a) Add the -security and -updates lists with a simple patch
b) Add support for apport to handle apt list updates on the fly (including making /var/lib/apt/lists writeable or something)

5) ogra is opposed to 4a right now for size reasons.

6) Nobody has proposed to implement 4b.

7) rbasak wants to see this bug fixed, and wants to sponsor 4a to Wily
assuming that it won't directly break something, since some fix is
better than no fix.

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Title:
  -updates, -security missing from apt lists

Status in live-build package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in livecd-rootfs package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  As indicated by Robie in bug 1467830 vivid-updates is missing from
  /var/lib/apt/lists on the phablet images for Ubuntu 15.04. This
  prevents one from using apport-cli to report bugs about packages that
  are from the -updates pocket. This is due to the fact that apport will
  not allow one to report bugs about packages which it cannot determine
  are from the official archive or a native origin PPA.

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