Merge lp:~jawn-smith/update-manager/apt-pkg-typeerrror into lp:update-manager

[William Wilson]

Adding an apt package to a list of strings causes typeerrors later on. Instead we should add the package name rather than the package object to the meta_pkgs list.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

review: Approve

=== modified file 'UpdateManager/Core/UpdateList.py'
--- UpdateManager/Core/UpdateList.py	2021-01-08 15:33:42 +0000
+++ UpdateManager/Core/UpdateList.py	2021-01-27 19:32:41 +0000
@@ -439,7 +439,7 @@
             meta_pkgs = [flavor_package, "ubuntu-standard", "ubuntu-minimal"]
             for pkg in cache:
                 if linux_regexp.match(pkg.name):
-                    meta_pkgs.append(pkg)
+                    meta_pkgs.append(pkg.name)
             for pkg in meta_pkgs:
                 if pkg in cache:
                     meta_group.add(cache[pkg])
 
=== modified file 'debian/changelog'
--- debian/changelog	2021-01-14 18:43:01 +0000
+++ debian/changelog	2021-01-27 19:32:41 +0000
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+update-manager (1:21.04.5) hirsute; urgency=medium
+
+  * Fix crash caused by adding apt package objects to a list of
+    strings (LP: #1913476)
+
+ -- William 'jawn-smith' Wilson <[e-mail]>  Wed, 27 Jan 2021 13:25:29 -0600
+
 update-manager (1:21.04.4) hirsute; urgency=medium
 
   * Clean up apt cache binary files created by the unit tests.