Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: apport
More of a question for LP's Answers section than anything else...
How can we prevent Apport (or more precisely, ubuntu-bug) from filing a
bug against a package that is not installed?
Case in point:
People often report a bug against the package 'upgrade-system' when they
really mean to file a bug against the package 'update-manager' or to
report a generic failure during a distribution upgrade e.g. one
package's maintainer script failed while upgrading, etc. This seems to
be due to people using the search keyword "upgrade" to find what pseudo-
package name they should use whenever reporting a distribution upgrade
failure and filing their report against the first package name that
matches, which tends to be 'upgrade-system', because it sounds like a
plausible pseudo-package name to file a generic distribution upgrade
failure.
The goal would thus be to prevent people from incorrectly filing a bug
against 'upgrade-system' if that package is not installed. Of course, it
would also help if Launchpad indeed provided a generic pseudo-package
name to report generic distribution upgrade failures, which Apport could
suggest using for that purpose via the desktop's System menu. :)
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: apport 1.0-0ubuntu5.2
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: apport
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-13-generic i686
** Affects: apport (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: apport-bug i386
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ubuntu-bug: how to prevent it from filing a bug against a package that is not
installed?
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/404727
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