This bug was fixed in the package apport - 2.4-0ubuntu4
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apport (2.4-0ubuntu4) quantal; urgency=low
* data/general/ubuntu.py: check to see if a package installation duplicate
signature has been encountered previously and if so prevent bug reporting
(LP: #1007637)
* data/general/ubuntu.py: properly decode DpkgTerminalLog lines
-- Brian Murray <[email protected]> Fri, 20 Jul 2012 11:39:06 -0700
** Changed in: apport (Ubuntu)
Status: In Progress => Fix Released
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1007637
Title:
ubuntu general hook should check to see if package install failure has
already happened
Status in “apport” package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Bug description:
In bug 991282, and its duplicates, we can see a bug reporter (its the
same person) running into the same package installation failure at
least 48 times. The duplicates here are misleading in that you may
thing this bug is really grave until you discover that all the
duplicates are from the same reporter. Additionally, the duplicates
don't provide any useful information and are wasetful.
We can see that bug 991282 has a DuplicateSignature in it and this is
how the apport retracer was able to mark duplicates of it. The
DuplicateSignature is created in the general ubuntu hook, ubuntu.py,
and I think when this is being created the rest of the DpkgTerminalLog
should be scanned for earlier occurences of this error. In the even
that we discover the same error we should assume that it has already
been reported and not report another bug about it.
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