[Bug 1059177] [NEW] update-manager-core does not list dependency on apport package

[Jason Rogers]

Public bug reported:

This problem occurred while I was using a minimal installation of Ubuntu
12.04 LTS (64-bit), installed from the Minimal ISO and updated as of
about 30 minutes before this report was filed. I was using the latest
update-manager-core package that is available in 12.04, which I believe
is version 1:0.156.14.5 (I no longer have it on my system, as I managed
to upgrade before reporting this bug).

What happened: After installing the above version of update-manager-
core, setting the "Prompt" variable to "normal" in /etc/update-manager
/release-upgrades, and attempting to upgrade to 12.10 (using "sudo do-
release-upgrade -d"), the upgrade process unexpectedly crashed with a
Python ImportError. The traceback said that it could not locate the
module apport.hookutils. I would have expected that apport would have
been installed as a dependency of update-manager-core, given that
update-manager-core requires that apport modules be present on the
system. So, I think that apport needs to be added as a dependency for
update-manager-core. Once I manually installed the apport package, the
upgrade process worked just fine.

** Affects: update-manager (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport dist-upgrade precise update-manager-core

** Tags added: dist-upgrade

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Title:
  update-manager-core does not list dependency on apport package

Status in “update-manager” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  This problem occurred while I was using a minimal installation of
  Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (64-bit), installed from the Minimal ISO and updated
  as of about 30 minutes before this report was filed. I was using the
  latest update-manager-core package that is available in 12.04, which I
  believe is version 1:0.156.14.5 (I no longer have it on my system, as
  I managed to upgrade before reporting this bug).

  What happened: After installing the above version of update-manager-
  core, setting the "Prompt" variable to "normal" in /etc/update-manager
  /release-upgrades, and attempting to upgrade to 12.10 (using "sudo do-
  release-upgrade -d"), the upgrade process unexpectedly crashed with a
  Python ImportError. The traceback said that it could not locate the
  module apport.hookutils. I would have expected that apport would have
  been installed as a dependency of update-manager-core, given that
  update-manager-core requires that apport modules be present on the
  system. So, I think that apport needs to be added as a dependency for
  update-manager-core. Once I manually installed the apport package, the
  upgrade process worked just fine.

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