Ahh brian, sorry for this delay here, I forgot to subscribe to the bug. So those variable changes where actually because I had update apport on a zesty machine but accidentally diffed against xenial source. I'll put up an official upstream apport merge proposal and link it here so we can proceed with a discussion.
-- 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/1722564 Title: apport question will not accept multi-character responses Status in Apport: Confirmed Status in apport package in Ubuntu: In Progress Status in apport source package in Artful: In Progress Bug description: the newly added cloud-init apport support shows a list of cloud providers and asks the user to select one. There are currently 18 options. For any option > 10, apport will just take the '1' that is typed as the answer. It should obviously wait for more than one character or a carriage return. *** Please select the cloud vendor or environment in which this instance is running Choices: 1: Amazon - Ec2 2: AliYun 3: AltCloud 4: Azure 5: Bigstep 6: CloudSigma 7: CloudStack 8: DigitalOcean 9: GCE - Google Compute Engine 10: MAAS 11: NoCloud 12: OpenNebula 13: OpenStack 14: OVF 15: Scaleway 16: SmartOS 17: VMware 18: Other C: Cancel Please choose (1/2/3/4/5/6/7/8/9/10/11/12/13/14/15/16/17/18/C): 1 ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10 Package: apport 2.20.7-0ubuntu2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-12.13-generic 4.13.3 Uname: Linux 4.13.0-12-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu2 Architecture: amd64 Date: Tue Oct 10 15:21:48 2017 PackageArchitecture: all ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm-256color PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=C.UTF-8 SourcePackage: apport UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/apport/+bug/1722564/+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