SRU of updated apport-package duplicate signature calculation
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
apport (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
|
Medium
|
Unassigned | ||
Precise |
Fix Released
|
Medium
|
Brian Murray | ||
Quantal |
Fix Released
|
Medium
|
Unassigned | ||
Raring |
Fix Released
|
Medium
|
Brian Murray |
Bug Description
[Impact]
Apport version 2.10-0ubuntu2 in saucy contains a shorter and less complicated DuplicateSignature than was previously used, to allow for more frequent duplicate consolidation on errors.ubuntu.com. This will allow package installation failures to appear amongst the most frequent crashes, and subsequently should be SRU'ed to the previous releases of Ubuntu so that we can resolve package install failures in them.
[Test Case]
1) download the crash-in-postinst package from https:/
2) install the package via software-center (software-center crash-in-
3) install the package again via 'sudo apt-get install crash-in-postinst' (this is necessary as dpkg -i doesn't generate a crash report and nor does software-center)
4) observe apport-crash dialog, click "Show Details"
5) Find DuplicateSignature section of the apport crash which should be 3 lines and contain
" Setting up crash-in-postinst (1-0~2~raring1) ...
dpkg: error processing crash-in-postinst (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
"
With the version of apport from -proposed the crash signature will look like:
"package:
Changed in apport (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | nobody → Brian Murray (brian-murray) |
status: | New → In Progress |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
Changed in apport (Ubuntu Precise): | |
status: | New → Triaged |
Changed in apport (Ubuntu Quantal): | |
status: | New → Triaged |
Changed in apport (Ubuntu Raring): | |
status: | New → In Progress |
Changed in apport (Ubuntu Precise): | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
Changed in apport (Ubuntu Quantal): | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
Changed in apport (Ubuntu Raring): | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
assignee: | nobody → Brian Murray (brian-murray) |
Changed in apport (Ubuntu Quantal): | |
assignee: | nobody → Brian Murray (brian-murray) |
Changed in apport (Ubuntu Precise): | |
assignee: | nobody → Brian Murray (brian-murray) |
Changed in apport (Ubuntu): | |
status: | In Progress → Invalid |
assignee: | Brian Murray (brian-murray) → nobody |
description: | updated |
Changed in apport (Ubuntu Quantal): | |
status: | Triaged → In Progress |
Changed in apport (Ubuntu Precise): | |
status: | Triaged → In Progress |
Changed in apport (Ubuntu Quantal): | |
assignee: | Brian Murray (brian-murray) → nobody |
Hello Brian, or anyone else affected,
Accepted apport into precise-proposed. The package will build now and be available at http:// launchpad. net/ubuntu/ +source/ apport/ 2.0.1-0ubuntu17 .3 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.
Please help us by testing this new package. See https:/ /wiki.ubuntu. com/Testing/ EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.
If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification- failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.
Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https:/ /wiki.ubuntu. com/QATeam/ PerformingSRUVe rification . Thank you in advance!