Apport-collect thinks that a package is a third-party one although it's not

[Brian Murray]

On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 07:18:00AM +0200, anne.schmidt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> First, I'd like to thank you for the marvellous work you're all doing on
> Ubuntu.
> 
> The problem I'm reporting now is related to Ubuntu Quantal-Quetzal Gnome Shell
> Remix 12.10 alpha. I hope I'm doing right in emailing you because the whole
> process described here seems quite complicated to me. Sorry, I'm slightly dumb
> on procedures.
> 
> On launching Quantal, "Appot-collect" launched itself saying Ubuntu 12.10 had
> had a problem and asking if I wanted to report it. I clicked on "yes" and the
> process begun. After a while, another window opened saying that the package
> that had had a problem was a third-party package but the description said that
> this package was "packagekit". This package belongs to Ubuntu 12.10. as you can
> see:
> 
>     anne at anne-QuantalQuetzalGSR:~$ apt-cache policy packagekit
>     packagekit:
>       Installed: 0.7.6-1
>       Candidate: 0.7.6-1
>       Version table:
>      *** 0.7.6-1 0
>             100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>     anne at anne-QuantalQuetzalGSR:~$

Something is wrong, or missing,  with information in the version table
shown above. I would also expect there to a location for the package
listed there.  For example here is what I have for one package:

terminator:
  Installed: 0.96-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 0.96-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 0.96-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

The 500 line indicates where I installed the package from.  Are you
encountering this issue on a Live CD from which you haven't run apt-get
update?

Thanks for bringing this up!
--
Brian Murray