Bah. This appears fixed in apport at 2.4-0ubuntu3. Sorry for not being up to date.
** Changed in: apport (Ubuntu) Status: New => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to apport in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1027108 Title: missing dependency on python-apport Status in “apport” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: This is on a ubuntu cloud image of quantal with serial 20120718. basically, the ubuntu-bug program is missing a dependency on python-apport. I suspect this is just missed in a python-3 transition. $ ubuntu-bug cloud-init Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/apport-cli", line 23, in <module> from apport import unicode_gettext as _ ImportError: No module named apport ubuntu@server-13830:~$ sudo apt-get install python-apport Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following extra packages will be installed: python-problem-report Suggested packages: python-launchpadlib The following NEW packages will be installed: python-apport python-problem-report 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 20 not upgraded. Need to get 93.1 kB of archives. After this operation, 659 kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Get:1 http://nov.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal/main python-problem-report all 2.4-0ubuntu3 [10.9 kB] Get:2 http://nov.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal/main python-apport all 2.4-0ubuntu3 [82. 2 kB] Fetched 93.1 kB in 0s (5,534 kB/s) Selecting previously unselected package python-problem-report. (Reading database ... 46916 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking python-problem-report (from .../python-problem-report_2.4-0ubuntu3_all.deb) ... Selecting previously unselected package python-apport. Unpacking python-apport (from .../python-apport_2.4-0ubuntu3_all.deb) ... Setting up python-problem-report (2.4-0ubuntu3) ... Setting up python-apport (2.4-0ubuntu3) ... ubuntu@server-13830:~$ ubuntu-bug `which ubuntu-bug` *** Collecting problem information ... ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10 Package: apport 2.3-0ubuntu4 ProcVersionSignature: User Name 3.5.0-4.4-generic 3.5.0-rc6 Uname: Linux 3.5.0-4-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.3-0ubuntu4 Architecture: amd64 Date: Fri Jul 20 14:41:15 2012 Ec2AMI: ami-0000011a Ec2AMIManifest: FIXME Ec2AvailabilityZone: nova Ec2InstanceType: m1.small Ec2Kernel: unavailable Ec2Ramdisk: unavailable PackageArchitecture: all ProcEnviron: TERM=screen PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: apport UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apport/+bug/1027108/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp