[Bug 776766] Re: package_hook doesn't check bug patterns

[Marcus Tomlinson]

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** Changed in: apport (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

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Title:
  package_hook doesn't check bug patterns

Status in apport package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: apport

  update-manager calls /usr/share/apport/package_hook during a
  distribution upgrade in the event of a package installation failure,
  however as far as I can tell this doesn't check bug patterns to see if
  the installation failure matches a pattern before reporting the bug.

  I discovered this after writing a pattern for samba4 that checks the
  key "VarLogDistupgradeTermlog" for a specific message.  I ran 'search-
  bugs --package samba4 --tags apport-package' and found bug 776733, bug
  776676 and bug 776671 which all matched the pattern and were reported.
  These bugs should not have been reported at all since a pattern is
  written for them.

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