Apport reports, without a cause

[Tuomas Aavikko]

Binary package hint: apport

Up-to-date intrepid

while using applications, there is menu entry for reporting problems.
Just by clicking it, it sends the report without proper dialogs that would allow the user
decide if he/she wants it to be sent forward.
Now you can just click "cancel" if you're fast enough. And/or close the browser tab/window when launchpad has opened.

Steps to reproduce
Applications→Audio & Video→Movie player
Just click the "report a problem" in the menus.

This ain't a bug, rather than usability issue.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package apport - 0.142

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apport (0.142) jaunty; urgency=low

  * apport/report.py: Do not include lsb_release's stderr in the
    DistroRelease: output.
  * apport/hookutils.py: Fix attach_printing():
    - Correct spelling or "error_log".
    - Do not call fgrep with no file names (if /etc/cups/ppd/ is empty), since
      that hangs forever.
  * apport/report.py, _gen_stacktrace_top(): Fix parsing of stacktraces
    with some addresses missing. Add test cases. (LP: #269133)
  * apport/ui.py, run_report_bug(): Show details of collected information and
    give the user a chance to cancel. Previously, collected data was sent
    directly to Launchpad. Nowadays lots of packages have hooks, so we cannot
    guarantee any more that bug reports only have non-sensitive information.
    (LP: #195514) This also allows the user to cancel if (s)he inadvertedly
    clicked on "Report a problem". (LP: #279033)
  * apport/ui.py: Fix crash in get_complete_size() for reports that are
    constructed on the fly instead of loaded from a file (i. e. for bug
    reports). Fixes displaying of report in apport-cli.
  * apport/report.py: Slight robustification of test_add_gdb_info_script()
    test case.
  * debian/local/ubuntu-bug: Fix invocation with "--help". (LP: #305841)
  * apport/ui.py, load_report(): Clearer error message if report file does not
    exist. (LP: #204198)
  * Remove redundant verbiage from test suite docstrings.
  * apport/report.py, anonymize(): Fix crash when processing root-owned
    reports. (LP: #338033)
  * apport/report.py, anonymize(): Do not anonymize single-character user and
    host names, since they create an utter mess in bug reports, and also are
    very low-sensitive.
  * debian/apport.init: Also start apport if force_start=1 is given. This
    provides a convenient method of starting apport just for a session without
    changing the default file. Add a comment to debian/apport.default about
    this possibility. Thanks to Milan for the suggestion and the initial
    patch! (LP: #320467)
  * backends/packaging-apt-dpkg.py, _get_mirror(): Only consider http://
    mirrors for fetching Contents.gz. (LP: #315797)

 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Thu, 05 Mar 2009 17:01:05 +0100