This would be a very useful feature for cases where bugs are mirrored from a bug tracking tool like bugzilla to launchpad, usually servers are behind firewalls, so .apport could be collected offline and later (the mirrored lp bug could be) updated with .apport information.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to apport in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1208508 Title: unable to update an bug with an existing .crash file Status in Apport: Triaged Status in apport package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: I may be misunderstanding the man pages, but I was assuming that if I ran the following... $ sudo apport-cli --save /tmp/linux.crash linux ... then copied linux.crash to a local system, I would be able to append the meta-data in linux.crash to an *existing* bug report like this: $ apport-cli --update-report $bug --crash-file linux.report However, that doesn't work: Usage: apport-cli [options] [symptom|pid|package|program path|.apport/.crash file] apport-cli: error: -u/--update-bug option cannot be used together with options for a new report This looks like a bug since I've specified '--update-report', hence this is not a new report. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/apport/+bug/1208508/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
