Comment 6 for bug 902714

This one, the bug 'ubuntu-bug can't always report bugs against "no particular package"', https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apport/+bug/902714. Unfortunately, no mention of an ID for the above transferred apparently to apport appears in the above note by micahg in 2011, so I can't follow up to see what actions occurred in the intervening years.

Since the same problem happened to me yesterday with Ubuntu 14.04, I saw that the error in the documentation remains or else in ubuntu-bug, as once again I tried to follow the instructions at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs:

"Filing a general bug against no particular package

If you’re not sure which package is affected by the bug, type ubuntu-bug in the “Run Command” screen and press Enter. This will guide you through a series of questions to gather more information about the bug and help you assign it to the appropriate package. "

However, if you do try this, and then select the category Other in the first panel, ubuntu-bug just pops up a warning that you must specify a particular package, and exits. This contradicts the topic itself: "Filing a general bug against no particular package".

In my case I was trying to report a problem in the printing area when I discovered this problem of reporting bugs of uncertain origin was unchanged.