Apport refuses to submit a bug because some packages are out of date. It should let the user decide.

[Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason]

Binary package hint: apport

This is probably a duplicate, but I couldn't find anything already reported while searching around.

I just had a program crash and apport refused to submit a bug because some packages on my system were obsolete. Sometimes when this happens I know for sure that the packages that were not up to date were irrelevant to the bug that just happened.

There's APPORT_IGNORE_OBSOLETE_PACKAGES but that doesn't help you if the issue can't easily be reproduced and apport has just thrown away your report data.

Apport should say that packages aren't up to date and so this issue /might/ be fixed, but leave the choice of whether to send a bug or not up to the user.

ProblemType: Bug
ApportLog:

Architecture: i386
CheckboxSubmission: 0169f76fbe64c26c287457397cc58891
CheckboxSystem: bb422ca46d02494cdbc459927a98bc2f
Date: Wed Mar 24 21:25:06 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: apport 1.13.1-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-16.25-generic
SourcePackage: apport
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-16-generic i686

[MarcRandolph (mrand)]

Howdy, and thank you for helping to improve Ubuntu by opening this ticket. This is similar to Bug #267488, but that one simply requests the user to be able to view the crash information.
This ticket requests the ability to override and submit the ticket anyway. I know that I personally need this as ability as well - mythtv auto-build packages get updated very frequently with very small changes and when a rare crash comes along, I need it submitted, not tossed because typo fix in a theme got pushed last night that I haven't had a chance to upgrade to.

[Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson)]

This release of Ubuntu is no longer receiving maintenance updates. If this is still an issue on a maintained version of Ubuntu please let us know.

[Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson)]

This issue has sat incomplete for more than 60 days now. I'm going to close it as invalid. Please feel free re-open if this is still an issue for you. Thank you.