[Bug 1722564] Re: apport question will not accept multi-character responses

[Robie Basak]

Brian, when you verified these, did you also check that single digit
choices can also be selected as expected? Seems to me that code path has
regression potential here.

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Title:
  apport question will not accept multi-character responses

Status in Apport:
  Confirmed
Status in apport package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in apport source package in Xenial:
  Fix Committed
Status in apport source package in Zesty:
  Fix Committed
Status in apport source package in Artful:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  === Begin SRU Template ===
  [Impact]
  Packages which provide apport integration with more than 9 options in a choice will not be able to select options numbered >= 10 on the commandline using 'ubuntu-bug <package-name>'

  
  [Test Case]
  Overview:
   1. Update to proposed versions of cloud-init v. 17.1 and apport v. <X>
   2. Run 'ubuntu-bug cloud-init' attempt to report a bug on a cloud choice greater than 9
   3. View report and make sure the proper cloud is reported


  Script:
  if [ ! -f './lxc-proposed-snapshot' ]; then
    wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cloud-init/ubuntu-sru/master/bin/lxc-proposed-snapshot;
    chmod 755 lxc-proposed-snapshot;
  fi

  for release in xenial artful; do
          ref=$release-proposed;
          echo "$release START --------------";
          lxc-proposed-snapshot --proposed --publish $release $ref;
          lxc init $ref test-$release;
          lxc start test-$release;
          lxc exec test-$release -- apt install apport;
          lxc exec test-$release -- dpkg-query --show apport;
          lxc exec test-$release -- ubuntu-bug cloud-init;
  done

  [Regression Potential]
  Minimal. This bug only affects packages with >9 bug filing options for a given choice. Worst case, is bugs filed would incorrectly represent option 1 of a selection instead of option 1X.

  
  === End SRU Template ===

  === original description ===
  the newly added cloud-init apport support shows a list of cloud providers and asks the user to select one.  There are currently 18 options.  For any option > 10, apport will just take the '1' that is typed as the answer.

  It should obviously wait for more than one character or a carriage
  return.

  *** Please select the cloud vendor or environment in which this
  instance is running

  Choices:
    1: Amazon - Ec2
    2: AliYun
    3: AltCloud
    4: Azure
    5: Bigstep
    6: CloudSigma
    7: CloudStack
    8: DigitalOcean
    9: GCE - Google Compute Engine
    10: MAAS
    11: NoCloud
    12: OpenNebula
    13: OpenStack
    14: OVF
    15: Scaleway
    16: SmartOS
    17: VMware
    18: Other
    C: Cancel
  Please choose (1/2/3/4/5/6/7/8/9/10/11/12/13/14/15/16/17/18/C): 1

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
  Package: apport 2.20.7-0ubuntu2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-12.13-generic 4.13.3
  Uname: Linux 4.13.0-12-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Tue Oct 10 15:21:48 2017
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm-256color
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=C.UTF-8
  SourcePackage: apport
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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