Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: apport
The last few times I have tried to upload an apport caught crash it
complains that one or another package is out of date. This is not at
all surprising considering that this is gutsy -- the development branch.
I'd hazard to guess that _everybody_'s gutsy system is some degree out
of date only a few hours since their last update. I update daily,
usually every morning.
So the result here is that you are missing out on valuable (valuable I
guess if the goal is release as bugless a release as you can) crash
reports simply because some ancillary package -- which probably in a lot
of cases has no bearing on the particular crash on hand -- is out of
date.
Shouldn't you just let the dup-checking facility weed out reports that
are a result of a bug which is fixed in an uploaded fix which a user has
not downloaded yet?
I can say for sure that this morning I had an apport-gtk crash which
apport wanted to upload but refused to do so simply because libcairo was
out of date (as of the last 24h). I seriously doubt that the error that
it hit was due to this just-out-of-date libcairo and now the information
about why it crashed is gone. Another bug lost/buried. :-(
** Affects: apport (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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fails to upload if packages are out of date
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/122818
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