[Bug 1098001] Re: DistUpgradeController calls apport with a source package as an argument

[Brian Murray]

Fix committed in revision number 2609.

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Title:
  DistUpgradeController calls apport with a source package as an
  argument

Status in “ubuntu-release-upgrader” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  [ Impact ]
  Some errors encountered when upgrading from one Ubuntu release to another are not reported because of an improper call to apport.

  [ Test Case ]
  1) Create a file named /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades.d/auf.cfg with the following contents:
  [Aufs]
  RWDir=/nonexistent-mntpoint/
  2) In a terminal run 'do-release-upgrade -d --sandbox'
  3) Observe an "Invalid problem report" dialog box and a message saying that "Package ubuntu-release-upgrader does not exist"

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  In DistUpgradeController ubuntu-release-upgrader manually calls apport for multiple failure cases using the following:

  subprocess.Popen(["apport-bug", "ubuntu-release-upgrader"])

  However, ubuntu-release-upgrader is a source package and not a binary
  package like update-manager was.  Because it is a source package it
  fails an apport check (Package ubuntu-release-upgrader does not exist)
  and no bug report is created.

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