Another way to verify the fix is just to confirm that the symlinks are now created, which they are with apport version 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.11 (18.04).
Setting up apport (2.20.9-0ubuntu7.11) ... apport-autoreport.service is a disabled or a static unit, not starting it. Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-2) ... Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-21) ... Processing triggers for systemd (237-3ubuntu10.38) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.3-2ubuntu0.1) ... bdmurray@clean-bionic-amd64:~$ ls -lh /usr/share/apport/package-hooks/*linux* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Feb 10 16:46 /usr/share/apport/package-hooks/source_linux-meta-oem-osp1.py -> source_linux.py lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Feb 10 16:46 /usr/share/apport/package-hooks/source_linux-meta-oem.py -> source_linux.py lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Feb 10 16:46 /usr/share/apport/package-hooks/source_linux-meta.py -> source_linux.py -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 948 Nov 11 13:57 /usr/share/apport/package-hooks/source_linux-nexus7.py lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Feb 10 16:46 /usr/share/apport/package-hooks/source_linux-oem-osp1.py -> source_linux.py lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Feb 10 16:46 /usr/share/apport/package-hooks/source_linux-oem.py -> source_linux.py -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6.2K Nov 11 13:57 /usr/share/apport/package-hooks/source_linux.py lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Feb 10 16:46 /usr/share/apport/package-hooks/source_linux-signed-oem-osp1.py -> source_linux.py lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Feb 10 16:46 /usr/share/apport/package-hooks/source_linux-signed-oem.py -> source_linux.py lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Feb 10 16:46 /usr/share/apport/package-hooks/source_linux-signed.py -> source_linux.py
Another way to verify the fix is just to confirm that the symlinks are now created, which they are with apport version 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.11 (18.04).
Setting up apport (2.20.9- 0ubuntu7. 11) ... autoreport. service is a disabled or a static unit, not starting it. clean-bionic- amd64:~ $ ls -lh /usr/share/ apport/ package- hooks/* linux* apport/ package- hooks/source_ linux-meta- oem-osp1. py -> source_linux.py apport/ package- hooks/source_ linux-meta- oem.py -> source_linux.py apport/ package- hooks/source_ linux-meta. py -> source_linux.py apport/ package- hooks/source_ linux-nexus7. py apport/ package- hooks/source_ linux-oem- osp1.py -> source_linux.py apport/ package- hooks/source_ linux-oem. py -> source_linux.py apport/ package- hooks/source_ linux.py apport/ package- hooks/source_ linux-signed- oem-osp1. py -> source_linux.py apport/ package- hooks/source_ linux-signed- oem.py -> source_linux.py apport/ package- hooks/source_ linux-signed. py -> source_linux.py
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Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-2) ...
Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-21) ...
Processing triggers for systemd (237-3ubuntu10.38) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.3-2ubuntu0.1) ...
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