Can we fix apport to stop reporting all upgrade bugs against dpkg?

[Raphael Hertzog]

Hi Martin,

On Fri, 15 Jul 2011, Martin Pitt wrote:
> sorry for the very late reply, this got lost in my mailbox.

Heh, I see that didrocks did not forget to ping you :-)

> Raphael Hertzog [2011-05-01  9:24 +0200]:
> > Introducing a work-around in the already released apport seems more
> > plausible. What do you think?
> 
> I created a bug pattern and set http://pad.lv/541595 as the master
> bug, to prevent further bug spam.
> 
> Is there a way to recreate this error condition locally, to test this
> end to end?

Well, there's this:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dpkg/+bug/541595/comments/3

But otherwise there's no clear way to reproduce this behaviour of APT.
I tried to break the .deb with a DPkg::Pre-Invoke hook but it's not enough
to get APT to run configure when it should not. Possibly it's something
that is only exhibited by (larger) upgrades.

Cheers,
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