Port to python3-launchpadlib

We don't have a python3-launchpadlib. Once we do, I'll gladly change Apport's dependencies.

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Yes, a python3-launchpadlib is almost a must for getting bug information into Launchpad for systems with broken X of X-less systems such as servers. In those cases, apport-collect won't work since the web browser can't be opened.

Also, +1 on changing the message printed out by apport-cli about the python-launchpadlib. It is very misleading since python-launchpadlib is technically instead, just the wrong version.

Indeed:

# apport-collect 1221264
ERROR: The launchpadlib Python module is not installed. This functionality is not available.

What is the workaround for now?

ah

sudo apt-get install python-launchpadlib

https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpadlib/+bug/1060734 <-- for the python3 development task

vivid now has a python3-launchpadlib \o/ (Thanks Dimitri!)

Blocked on bug 1403524

Current blockers: bug 1414055, bug 1414063, bug 1414075

This bug was fixed in the package apport - 2.16-0ubuntu1

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apport (2.16-0ubuntu1) vivid; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release:
    - Add a new method ProblemReport.extract_keys() which writes binary keys
      (which can be very large) directly to files without loading them all
      into memory first. Use that in apport-unpack. Thanks Louis Bouchard!
      (LP: #1307413)
    - launchpad backend: Work with Python 3, now that launchpadlib exists for
      Python 3. (LP: #1153671)
    - apport-bug, apport-gtk: Also check for $WAYLAND_SESSION, to use
      apport-gtk instead of apport-cli under Wayland. Thanks Tim Lunn.
      (LP: #1418766)
    - apport-gtk: When running under Wayland, avoid Gdk/Wnck operation for
      setting crash window modal to the PID of the crashed window; these only
      work under X11.
    - Don't install the test suite any more, to save 1 MB of installed space.
      It can be run out of trunk easily enough, and distributions can install
      it from tests/ if they desire.
    - hookutils, attach_root_command_outputs(): Fix UnicodeDecodeError crash
      for non-textual values. (LP: #1370259)
    - ui.py: Only provide a UI to hooks if the crash db will accept the
      report. This avoids asking questions if the report is merely sent to
      whoopsie for Ubuntu stable releases. Thanks Brian Murrary.
      (LP: #1084979)
    - whoopsie-upload-all: Add package information to the report before
      calling package hooks. Thanks Brian Murray.
    - Fix check for available terminal when checking whether to display the
      "Examine locally" button.
  * Add general hook for detecting Wayland sessions and tagging them with
    "wayland-session". Thanks Timm Lunn! (LP: #1418262)
  * debian/tests/upstream-system: Copy tests from source tree, as
    /usr/share/apport/testsuite/ does not exist any more.
 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Fri, 06 Feb 2015 10:11:30 +0100

Reopening, this isn't sufficient yet. I still need to flip the package dependencies around once a fixed py3-lplib lands.

Next blocker: bug 1422249

Another blocker: bug 1425575

Another blocker: bug 1425609

Next blocker: bug 1425627

LP: #1425609 and LP: #1425627 (aka LP: #1714960) and LP: #1422249 (aka LP: #1471894) are now fixed.

Once you do this, these fallbacks should be cleaned up:

http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~apport-hackers/apport/trunk/view/head:/apport/crashdb_impl/launchpad.py#L30
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~apport-hackers/apport/trunk/view/head:/apport/crashdb_impl/launchpad.py#L137

This bug was fixed in the package apport - 2.20.8-0ubuntu3

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apport (2.20.8-0ubuntu3) bionic; urgency=medium

  * apport-retrace: Use Python3. LP: #1153671.

 -- Matthias Klose <email address hidden> Tue, 05 Dec 2017 15:39:46 +0100