[Bug 1681596] Re: UpgradeStatus only checks for ubuntu-release-upgrader upgrades

[Brian Murray]

** Tags added: rls-aa-incoming

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Title:
  UpgradeStatus only checks for ubuntu-release-upgrader upgrades

Status in apport package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  In add_release_info of the generic ubuntu apport hook we can see the
  following:

      log = '/var/log/dist-upgrade/main.log'
      if os.path.exists(log):
          mtime = os.stat(log).st_mtime
          human_mtime = time.strftime('%Y-%m-%d', time.gmtime(mtime))
          delta = time.time() - mtime

          # Would be nice if this also showed which release was originally installed
          report['UpgradeStatus'] = 'Upgraded to %s on %s (%d days ago)' % (release_codename, human_mtime, delta / 86400)
      else:
          report['UpgradeStatus'] = 'No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)'

  UpgradeStatus doesn't take into consideration the possibility that
  people upgraded by editing their sources.list file and ran 'apt-get
  dist-upgrade', so saying it is "probably a fresh install" is wrong.
  Apport can up creating reports with a InstallationMedia of Precise,
  DistroRelease of Yakkety, but then a UpgradeStatus of "No upgrade log
  present..." which is wrong.

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