Comment 28 for bug 1071905

Martin Pitt, thanks for checking in on this report. We could take this discussion off report as it seems unrelated, but as per the apport-cli manpage:
 -c report, --crash-file=report
              Upload a previously processed stored report in an arbitrary file
              location. This is useful for copying a crash report to a
              machine with internet connection and reporting it from there.
              Files must end in .crash or .apport.

-u report-number, --update-report report-number
              Run apport information collection on an already existing problem
              report. The affected package is taken from the report by
              default, but you can explicitly specify one with --package to
              collect information for a different package (this is useful if
              the report is assigned to the wrong package).

Hence, apport-cli -c *.crash -u 12345 is valid syntax. Are your advising this feature is intending to no longer be supported, is broken, something else?

Thank you for your time and consideration in this matter, and I look forward to your response.