ubuntu-bug command fails if "other" selected

Bug #774491 reported by buchs
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apport (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

I tried to use ubuntu-bug to report a problem with the 11.04 upgrade (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/774359) as directed here (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs). When I select the "Other Problem" kind of problem, I get an error dialog stating "You need to specify a package or a PID. See --help for for more information." That GUI is really flawed. If the "Other Problem" is really going to be left as a fatal choice, then it should at least make it clear that you want someone to run the command "ubuntu-bug --help". However, consider how one should proceed if they want to report a bug in the Ubuntu upgrade? I don't know what package or PID I would even give, and I can express that very condition on the web submission form, but this GUI gives me no way to do that.

IKT (ikt)
affects: ubuntu → apport (Ubuntu)
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Philip Muškovac (yofel) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 654928, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.

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