apport-gtk: ImportError: cannot import name '_gi' from partially initialized module 'gi'

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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/apport/apport-gtk", line 16, in <module>
    import gi
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/gi/__init__.py", line 40, in <module>
    from . import _gi
ImportError: cannot import name '_gi' from partially initialized module 'gi' (most likely due to a circular import) (/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/gi/__init__.py)

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[Benjamin Drung (bdrung)]

13 occurrences in the last day making it on rank 9.

[Benjamin Drung (bdrung)]

Fixed upstream: https://github.com/canonical/apport/commit/dd432ca42a95be03fdd70e6132559dfbe7dcf28d

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package apport - 2.23.0-0ubuntu1

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apport (2.23.0-0ubuntu1) kinetic; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release:
    - apport-gtk:
      - Gracefully handle import failure of gi (LP: #1980561)
      - Catch AssertionError when importing Gdk (LP: #1980238)
    - data/apport:
      - Fix PermissionError for setuid programs inside container (LP: #1982487)
      - Fix reading from stdin inside containers (LP: #1982555)
    - apport-kde:
      - Fix inverse order of choices (LP: #1967965)
      - Import apport before usage (LP: #1980553)
      - Drop old workaround for bug in SIP destructor (LP: #1980553)
    - apport-unpack: Fix ValueError: ['separator'] has no binary content
      (LP: #1889443)
    - Fix _run_hook getting called with ui=None (LP: #1983481)
  * Refresh patches and drop backported patches
  * Fix pydocstyle and pylint complains in patches

 -- Benjamin Drung <email address hidden> Mon, 22 Aug 2022 22:31:55 +0200