Apport asks to install 'bluez-hcidump' but this package does not exist

[Pierre Equoy]

I wanted to file a bug regarding bluetooth, so I run 'ubuntu-bug bluez'.

Apport is launched and proposes the following:

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Your bug report will be processed in few seconds.
If you can reproduce it, please follow the next steps:
    - Install the package 'bluez-hcidump'
    - Open a new terminal
    - Run the command "sudo hcidump -XYt > $HOME/hci.log"
    - Reproduce the actions until the error happens
    - On the terminal, press Ctrl+C to stop hcidump.
    - Attach the file hci.log to the bug report.
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So I try to install the 'bluez-hcidump' package, but...

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% sudo apt-get install bluez-hcidump
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package bluez-hcidump is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'bluez-hcidump' has no installation candidate
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ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10
Package: bluez 4.101-0ubuntu20
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-25.33-generic 3.16.7
Uname: Linux 3.16.0-25-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Mon Dec 1 16:50:04 2014
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-11-15 (15 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" - Release amd64 (20141022.1)
InterestingModules: bnep rfcomm btusb bluetooth
MachineType: Acer Aspire VN7-591G
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-3.16.0-25-generic.efi.signed root=/dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-root ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: bluez
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 09/12/2014
dmi.bios.vendor: Insyde Corp.
dmi.bios.version: V1.08
dmi.board.asset.tag: No Asset Tag
dmi.board.name: Aspire VN7-591G
dmi.board.vendor: Acer
dmi.board.version: V1.08
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Tag
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Chassis Manufacturer
dmi.chassis.version: V1.08
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnInsydeCorp.:bvrV1.08:bd09/12/2014:svnAcer:pnAspireVN7-591G:pvrV1.08:rvnAcer:rnAspireVN7-591G:rvrV1.08:cvnChassisManufacturer:ct10:cvrV1.08:
dmi.product.name: Aspire VN7-591G
dmi.product.version: V1.08
dmi.sys.vendor: Acer
hciconfig:
 hci0: Type: BR/EDR Bus: USB
  BD Address: 5C:93:A2:EB:FF:43 ACL MTU: 1022:8 SCO MTU: 183:5
  UP RUNNING PSCAN ISCAN
  RX bytes:5529 acl:0 sco:0 events:856 errors:0
  TX bytes:6892 acl:0 sco:0 commands:727 errors:0
syslog:
 Dec 1 16:21:16 Miles bluetoothd[631]: Discovery session 0x7fa5da51da30 with :1.228 activated
 Dec 1 16:27:43 Miles bluetoothd[631]: Discovery session 0x7fa5da530a50 with :1.230 activated

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Pierre Equoy, thank you for reporting this and helping make Ubuntu better. As per https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bluez-hcidump the package is not available in Utopic+. Hence, it would appear apport would want to be adjusted for these releases to not include this request, and/or provide some other suggestion.

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

I found that this is still the case with apport 2.18-0ubuntu2 on Ubuntu Wily. I've also found a couple of duplicates reported against the bluez package, so I've marked that as also affected to make this bug more discoverable.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

This apparently was an error in the bluez package hook. /usr/share/apport/package-hooks/source_bluez.py does not mention hcidump any more in current wily, so I suppose the hook got fixed at some point.