Repairing a broken package import

[Barry Warsaw]

Today I wanted to work on the apport packaging branch, but the importer has
been failing on this package:

http://package-import.ubuntu.com/status/apport.html#2012-01-26 06:59:16.573850

I took a look at bug 494481, which is referenced by the importer failure
package, but I didn't see anything that exactly matched the traceback.  Still,
on the theory that I probably can't break this package any worse than it
already is, I did the following:

bzr tag -r martin.pitt at canonical.com-20100624133714-tp43iqk10jzt7ftp \
upstream-1.14.1 -d :parent

Two questions:

- Did I do the right thing to fix this particular crash?

- Do I need to do anything else explicitly to get this package to start
  importing again (i.e. "requeue the package")?

We've talked about adding some remediation hints to the wiki page but have yet
to do so.  As a result of this thread, I'll write something up for
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DistributedDevelopment

Cheers,
-Barry
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