[Bug 1208508] Re: unable to update an bug with an existing .crash file

[Manoj Iyer]

This would be a very useful feature for cases where bugs are mirrored
from a bug tracking tool like bugzilla to launchpad, usually servers are
behind firewalls, so .apport could be collected offline and later (the
mirrored lp bug could be) updated with .apport information.

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Title:
  unable to update an bug with an existing .crash file

Status in Apport:
  Triaged
Status in apport package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I may be misunderstanding the man pages, but I was assuming that if I
  ran the following...

      $ sudo apport-cli --save /tmp/linux.crash linux

  ... then copied linux.crash to a local system, I would be able to
  append the meta-data in linux.crash to an *existing* bug report like
  this:

      $ apport-cli  --update-report $bug --crash-file linux.report

  However, that doesn't work:

      Usage: apport-cli [options] [symptom|pid|package|program
  path|.apport/.crash file]

      apport-cli: error: -u/--update-bug option cannot be used together
  with options for a new report

  This looks like a bug since I've specified '--update-report', hence
  this is not a new report.

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