apport tagging a debian package as third-party

[Ritesh Raj Sarraf]

Package: apport
Version: 2.14.7-1
Severity: normal

Apport is incorrectly tagging a Debian package as an external 3rd party package

Please see attached screenshot.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages apport depends on:
ii gir1.2-glib-2.0 1.42.0-2.2
ii lsb-base 4.1+Debian13+nmu1
ii python3 3.4.2-2
ii python3-apport 2.14.7-1
ii python3-gi 3.14.0-1
pn python:any <none>

Versions of packages apport recommends:
ii policykit-1 0.105-8

Versions of packages apport suggests:
ii apport-gtk 2.14.7-1
ii apport-kde 2.14.7-1

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/apport/crashdb.conf changed:
default = 'debian-debug'
databases = {
    'ubuntu': {
        'impl': 'launchpad',
        'bug_pattern_url': 'http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/bugpatterns/bugpatterns.xml',
        'dupdb_url': 'http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/apport-duplicates',
        'distro': 'ubuntu',
        'escalation_tag': 'bugpattern-needed',
        'escalated_tag': 'bugpattern-written',
    },
    'fedora': {
         # NOTE this will change Fall '07 when RHT switches to bugzilla 3.x!
        'impl': 'rhbugzilla',
        'bug_pattern_url': 'http://qa.fedoraproject.org/apport/bugpatterns.xml',
        'distro': 'fedora'
    },
    'debian': {
        'impl': 'debian',
        'distro': 'debian',
        'smtphost': 'reportbug.debian.org',
        'recipient': '<email address hidden>',
        'sender': ''
    },
    'debian-debug': {
 'impl': 'debian',
 'distro': 'debian',
 'smtphost': 'localhost',
 'recipient': '<email address hidden>',
 'sender': '<email address hidden>'
    },
    'debug': {
        # for debugging
        'impl': 'memory',
        'bug_pattern_url': '/tmp/bugpatterns.xml',
        'distro': 'debug'
    },
}

-- no debconf information

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Ah, this is because in Debian, /etc/os-release has

  NAME="Debian GNU/Linux"

but the origin of a package is just "Debian".

Fixed in http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~apport-hackers/apport/trunk/revision/2994