ubuntu-bug claims systemd is not an official package

[Scott Moser]

I have just used 'env -i' to avoid the gtk dialog.
The same occurs when using gtk.

I can't file a bug against systemd because it complains:
   This is not an official Ubuntu package. Please remove any third party package and try again.

Other packages work (i tried 'cloud-initramfs-rooturl' for one).
(also note, i used 'ubuntu-bug' to file *this* bug, so not all packages are borked).

$ apt-cache policy systemd
systemd:
  Installed: 234-2ubuntu12.1
  Candidate: 234-2ubuntu12.1
  Version table:
 *** 234-2ubuntu12.1 100
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     234-2ubuntu12 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 Packages

$ dpkg-query --show systemd
systemd 234-2ubuntu12.1

$ env -i HOME=$HOME ubuntu-bug systemd

*** Collecting problem information

The collected information can be sent to the developers to improve the
application. This might take a few minutes.
.....ERROR: hook /usr/share/apport/package-hooks/systemd.py crashed:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/report.py", line 198, in _run_hook
    symb['add_info'](report, ui)
TypeError: add_info() takes 1 positional argument but 2 were given

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/report.py", line 203, in _run_hook
    symb['add_info'](report)
  File "/usr/share/apport/package-hooks/systemd.py", line 11, in add_info
    apport.hookutils.attach_hardware(report)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/hookutils.py", line 265, in attach_hardware
    attach_dmi(report)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/hookutils.py", line 221, in attach_dmi
    value = fd.read().strip()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/encodings/ascii.py", line 26, in decode
    return codecs.ascii_decode(input, self.errors)[0]
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xff in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)

*** Problem in systemd

The problem cannot be reported:

This is not an official Ubuntu package. Please remove any third party package and try again.

Press any key to continue...
No pending crash reports. Try --help for more information.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: apport 2.20.7-0ubuntu3.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-16.19-generic 4.13.4
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-16-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl zcommon znvpair
ApportLog:

ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu3.1
Architecture: amd64
CrashReports: 640:1000:116:17662:2017-10-31 09:46:03.727057218 -0400:2017-10-31 09:46:04.727057218 -0400:/var/crash/_usr_bin_tox.1000.crash
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Tue Nov 7 14:22:04 2017
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-07-23 (838 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" - Alpha amd64 (20150722.1)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: apport
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[dino99 (9d9)]

This should work now with the latest version:

apport (2.20.7-0ubuntu4) bionic; urgency=medium

  * etc/apport/crashdb.conf: Enable Launchpad crash reports for bionic.
  * bin/apport-cli: read until <enter> instead of a single character when # of
    apport options is non-unique with a single character. Thanks to Chad Smith
    for the patch. (LP: #1722564)

 -- Brian Murray <email address hidden> Wed, 08 Nov 2017 12:18:04 -0800

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

apport uses the dpkg database to determine if a package is official. In your description we can see that apt does not know where the package was installed from.

$ apt-cache policy systemd
systemd:
  Installed: 234-2ubuntu12.1
  Candidate: 234-2ubuntu12.1
  Version table:
 *** 234-2ubuntu12.1 100
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     234-2ubuntu12 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main amd64

This is why apport would not file a bug and said that it was not an official package.