This bug was fixed in the package apport - 1.26-0ubuntu1

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apport (1.26-0ubuntu1) precise; urgency=low

  * New upstream release:
    - backends/packaging-apt-dpkg.py: Port to current python-apt API.
    - hookutils.py: Fix path_to_key() to also work with unicode arguments.
    - test/crash: Exit successfully if apport is not enabled in the system.
      This allows packages to run the test suite during build.
    - report.py, add_proc_info(): Correctly handle "python -m <modulename>"
      programs as being interpreted and determine the appropriate module path.
    - Fix some import statements to also work for the system-installed test
      suite.
    - test/run: Fix testing data/general-hooks/parse_segv.py when called in
      system-installed mode.
    - apport/ui.py: Clean up test .crash file after test cases.
    - Fix tests when running as root.
    - setup.py: Fix crash when "javac -version" fails.
    - README: Update command for one-time enablement.
    - backends/packaging-apt-dpkg.py: Fix interleaving usage of
      install_packages() with other operations such as get_version(), by
      resetting the apt status after building and using the sandbox.
    - report.py test suite: Remove requirement that $USER is set, which makes
      it easier to run this from package build environments.
    - apport/ui.py, test/crash: Use "yes" as test process instead of "cat".
      The former is less likely to run already, and does not depend on having
      a stdin, so it runs better in test environments like autopkgtest.
    - backends/packaging-apt-dpkg.py: Fix tests if system does not have a
      dbgsym apt source.
    - Ignore a crash if gnome-session is running and says that the session is
      being shut down. These often die because X.org or other services are
      going away, are usually harmless, and just cause a lot of clutter in bug
      trackers.  (LP: #460932)
    - test/crash: Rewrite using Python's unittest, to be in line with other
      tests, and be easier to maintain and extend.
  * Add debian/tests/control and debian/tests/upstream-system:
    DEP-8/autopkgtest control file for running the upstream tests.
  * debian/control: Bump minimal Python version to 2.7, as the upstream trunk
    is now moving to Python 3 compatibility; some of the new syntax does not
    work with 2.6 yet.
  * debian/control: Update apport-retrace package description, apport-chroot
    is gone. Also drop the now obsolete Suggests.
  * debian/rules: Run tests during package build, but do not let them fail the
    build just yet. It will still take a while until all test suceed in the
    buildd environment.
  * debian/control: Add gdb and python-twisted-core build dependencies, so
    that the test suite can succeed.
  * debian/control: Move python-gobject and gir1.2-glib-2.0 dependencies from
    apport-gtk to apport, as our generic.py hook needs it. Also add them to
    build depends for the test suite.
  * debian/control: Add missing lsb-release dependency, used by
    Report.add_os_info().
  * debian/control: Add net-books build dependency, test suite uses "route" to
    determine whether or not to run the online tests.
 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden>   Fri, 11 Nov 2011 11:32:49 +0100