[Bug 1939616] [NEW] u-r-u should leave a breadcrumb indicating a dist-upgrade is in progress

[Brian Murray]

Public bug reported:

Looking at the source code of ubuntu-release-upgrader it looks like an
environment variable, RELEASE_UPGRADE_IN_PROGRESS, is set when an
upgrade is being performed. However, it would be better if there was an
indication that other programs, e.g. apport, could use to tell whether
or not a release upgrade was in progress.

This came up as we saw some crash reports in the error tracker that
didn't make sense and a possible explanation is that a release upgrade
was in progress.

** Affects: apport (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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


** Tags: rls-ii-incoming

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Title:
  u-r-u should leave a breadcrumb indicating a dist-upgrade is in
  progress

Status in apport package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in ubuntu-release-upgrader package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Looking at the source code of ubuntu-release-upgrader it looks like an
  environment variable, RELEASE_UPGRADE_IN_PROGRESS, is set when an
  upgrade is being performed. However, it would be better if there was
  an indication that other programs, e.g. apport, could use to tell
  whether or not a release upgrade was in progress.

  This came up as we saw some crash reports in the error tracker that
  didn't make sense and a possible explanation is that a release upgrade
  was in progress.

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