[Bug 1243661] [NEW] Release upgrade does not function in chroot - missing python apt module

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Public bug reported:

Trying to upgrade an ubuntu 13.04 x86 chroot on a kubuntu 13.10 x64 host (recently upgraded from 13.04) using do-release-upgrade. Installed do-release-upgrade by running
apt-get install ubuntu-release-upgrader-core
which installs the binaries. Running do-release-upgrade after that fails with the message that python can't find its apt module. ubuntu-release-upgrader-core should probably depend on python-apt. I installed both python-apt and python3-apt, not sure which is actualy needed. After this do-release-upgrade runs better.

To be complete: I had to mount some system directories into my chroot, which I did as usual by running on the host:
sudo mount -t proc none ~/chroot/proc/
sudo mount -t sysfs none ~/chroot/sys/
sudo mount -B /dev ~/chroot/dev/
One or more of these is needed for the upgrade script to work. This left only some unicode-related crashes in the upgrade scripts which I fixed by just commenting out the lines where they occurred - no time to dig further into that, I'm afraid.

** Affects: ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  Release upgrade does not function in chroot - missing python apt
  module

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

Bug description:
  Trying to upgrade an ubuntu 13.04 x86 chroot on a kubuntu 13.10 x64 host (recently upgraded from 13.04) using do-release-upgrade. Installed do-release-upgrade by running
  apt-get install ubuntu-release-upgrader-core
  which installs the binaries. Running do-release-upgrade after that fails with the message that python can't find its apt module. ubuntu-release-upgrader-core should probably depend on python-apt. I installed both python-apt and python3-apt, not sure which is actualy needed. After this do-release-upgrade runs better.

  To be complete: I had to mount some system directories into my chroot, which I did as usual by running on the host:
  sudo mount -t proc none ~/chroot/proc/
  sudo mount -t sysfs none ~/chroot/sys/
  sudo mount -B /dev ~/chroot/dev/
  One or more of these is needed for the upgrade script to work. This left only some unicode-related crashes in the upgrade scripts which I fixed by just commenting out the lines where they occurred - no time to dig further into that, I'm afraid.

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