Comment 4 for bug 1034806

errors.ubuntu.com shows a steady decline in the reports of this issue since the 10th, when the update was published:

https://errors.ubuntu.com/bucket/?id=%2Fusr%2Fsbin%2Faptd%3AUnicodeDecodeError%3Afail%3A_emit_acquire_item

790 crashes on Aug 9, down to 246 crashes on Aug 11 and 195 crashes on Aug 12. The report claims that 191 of these happened with version 0.43+bzr805-0ubuntu4; however we think this is some fuzz in the reporting that needs fixing rather than actual ongoing crashes with this version (https://bugs.launchpad.net/errors/+bug/1035557). So there is moderately strong evidence that this bug is fixed.

It would still be appreciated if the users who saw this bug can confirm that the crash has gone away, and they can now use the "Update" button within update-manager after installing the newer precise-proposed version of aptdaemon.