not all package install failures generate a crash report

Here is a log from a failed installation of the package:

2013-07-01 11:59:54,742 - softwarecenter.backend - WARNING - _on_trans_error: 'TransactionFailed(u'error-package-manager-failed: (Reading database ... \r(Reading database ... 5%\r(Reading database ... 10%\r(Reading database ... 15%\r(Reading database ... 20%\r(Reading database ... 25%\r(Reading database ... 30%\r(Reading database ... 35%\r(Reading database ... 40%\r(Reading database ... 45%\r(Reading database ... 50%\r(Reading database ... 55%\r(Reading database ... 60%\r(Reading database ... 65%\r(Reading database ... 70%\r(Reading database ... 75%\r(Reading database ... 80%\r(Reading database ... 85%\r(Reading database ... 90%\r(Reading database ... 95%\r(Reading database ... 100%\r(Reading database ... 649694 files and directories currently installed.)\r\nPreparing to replace crash-in-postinst 2 (using .../crash-in-postinst_2_all.deb) ...\r\nUnpacking replacement crash-in-postinst ...\r\nSetting up crash-in-postinst (2) ...\r\ndpkg: error processing crash-in-postinst (--install):\r\n subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1\r\nErrors were encountered while processing:\r\n crash-in-postinst\r\n',)' '<AptTransaction object at 0x76f41e0 (aptdaemon+client+AptTransaction at 0x7564280)>' 'crash-in-postinst'
2013-07-01 12:03:57,327 - softwarecenter.ui.gtk3.app - INFO - setting up proxy 'None'
2013-07-01 12:03:59,780 - softwarecenter.backend.reviews - WARNING - Could not get usefulness from server, no username in config file
2013-07-01 12:03:59,832 - softwarecenter.plugin - INFO - activating plugin '<module 'webapps_activation' from '/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/plugins/webapps_activation.pyc'>'
2013-07-01 12:04:01,363 - softwarecenter.db.pkginfo_impl.aptcache - INFO - aptcache.open()
2013-07-01 12:04:10,679 - softwarecenter.db.utils - INFO - software-center-agent finished with status 0
2013-07-01 12:04:15,764 - softwarecenter.backend.spawn_helper - WARNING - exit code 1 from helper for '['/usr/share/software-center/piston_generic_helper.py', '--datadir', '/usr/share/software-center/', 'SoftwareCenterRecommenderAPI', 'recommend_app', '{"pkgname": "crash-in-postinst"}']'
2013-07-01 12:04:15,766 - softwarecenter.backend.spawn_helper - WARNING - got error from helper: 'WARNING:__main__:404: {'status': '404', 'content-length': '66', 'via': '1.1 papeda.canonical.com:3128 (squid/2.7.STABLE7)', 'x-cache': 'MISS from papeda.canonical.com', 'x-cache-lookup': 'HIT from papeda.canonical.com:3128', 'strict-transport-security': 'max-age=2592000', 'vary': 'Accept-Encoding', 'server': 'Apache/2.2.22 (Ubuntu)', 'etag': '"63f0274927b9669d1d133c5b07318e05"', 'cache-control': 'max-age=300', 'date': 'Mon, 01 Jul 2013 19:04:11 GMT', 'content-type': 'text/html; charset=utf-8', '-content-encoding': 'gzip'}
'

Here is an incomplete patch using the package_hook utility to create .crash files. However, there is an issue with the naming of attachments and code in the general Ubuntu hook (ubuntu.py) for handling dpkg log files. The issue being that the log file will be called VarLogAptTermlog and not DpkgTerminalLog like ubuntu.py expects.

If fixing this is likely to change the reported error rate without changing the actual error rate, these particular error reports should include the DetectedSince key.

That version is no more maintained

This still affects recent versions of Ubuntu.