apport-gtk crashed with ValueError in _apt_pkg(): package acroread-bin does not exist

[penalvch]

1) lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu Trusty Tahr (development branch)
Release: 14.04

2) apt-cache policy apport-gtk
apport-gtk:
  Installed: 2.12.7-0ubuntu2
  Candidate: 2.12.7-0ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 2.12.7-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

3) What is expected to happen if one installs ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/unix/9.x/9.5.5/enu/AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i386linux_enu.deb

acroread
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

and attempts to file a report against it, apport-gtk doesn't crash.

4) What happens is it does.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: apport-gtk 2.12.7-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.12.0-7.15-generic 3.12.4
Uname: Linux 3.12.0-7-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.12.7-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CrashReports:
 640:1000:116:820823:2013-12-19 16:53:09.824448585 -0600:2013-12-19 16:53:10.824448585 -0600:/var/crash/_opt_Adobe_Reader9_Reader_intellinux_bin_acroread.1000.crash
 640:1000:116:56516:2013-12-19 16:53:16.724448442 -0600:2013-12-19 16:53:17.724448442 -0600:/var/crash/_usr_share_apport_apport-gtk.1000.crash
Date: Thu Dec 19 16:53:17 2013
ExecutablePath: /usr/share/apport/apport-gtk
ExecutableTimestamp: 1386690210
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-12-19 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Alpha amd64 (20131219)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python3.3
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python3 /usr/share/apport/apport-gtk
ProcCwd: /home/moniker
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
PythonArgs: ['/usr/share/apport/apport-gtk']
SourcePackage: apport
Title: apport-gtk crashed with ValueError in _apt_pkg(): package acroread-bin does not exist
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this crash and helping to make this software better. This particular crash has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #1116682, so is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Not a duplicate, as the intending duplicate report only has a project task for cdemu, not apport.

[penalvch (penalvch)]

I don't use 14.04, would never install EOL acroread, and issue was only reproducible against EOL acroread.