[Bug 1884148] Re: dist upgrade process passes a number along with package to apport

[Brian Murray]

** Description changed:

+ [Impact]
+ The distribution upgrade process is passing to apport packages with numbers prepended to them, this then causes apport to crash and bugs about package installation failures not to be reported.
+ 
  The Ubuntu Error Tracker has been receiving reports about a problem regarding apport.  This problem was most recently seen with package version 2.20.11-0ubuntu40, the problem page at https://errors.ubuntu.com/problem/976abccbca7b548c9ccf155c80c8eb6f36efa7de contains more details, including versions of packages affected, stacktrace or traceback, and individual crash reports.
  If you do not have access to the Ubuntu Error Tracker and are a software developer, you can request it at http://forms.canonical.com/reports/.

** Package changed: apport (Ubuntu) => ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu)

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Title:
  dist upgrade process passes a number along with package to apport

Status in ubuntu-release-upgrader package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in ubuntu-release-upgrader source package in Focal:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  [Impact]
  The distribution upgrade process is passing to apport packages with numbers prepended to them, this then causes apport to crash and bugs about package installation failures not to be reported.

  The Ubuntu Error Tracker has been receiving reports about a problem regarding apport.  This problem was most recently seen with package version 2.20.11-0ubuntu40, the problem page at https://errors.ubuntu.com/problem/976abccbca7b548c9ccf155c80c8eb6f36efa7de contains more details, including versions of packages affected, stacktrace or traceback, and individual crash reports.
  If you do not have access to the Ubuntu Error Tracker and are a software developer, you can request it at http://forms.canonical.com/reports/.

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