dist-upgrade.py returns 1 due to /var/log/dist-upgrade/* not found in P2Q server upgrades

During the latest (3 days leading upto 20121001) quantal server upgrades from precise meet the following failure.

extracting 'quantal.tar.gz'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/tmp/update-manager-rA1F55/quantal", line 6, in <module>
    from DistUpgrade.DistUpgradeMain import main
  File "/tmp/update-manager-rA1F55/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeMain.py", line 56, in <module>
    from .DistUpgradeController import DistUpgradeController
  File "/tmp/update-manager-rA1F55/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeController.py", line 62, in <module>
    from .DistUpgradeView import STEP_PREPARE, STEP_MODIFY_SOURCES, STEP_FETCH, STEP_INSTALL, STEP_CLEANUP, STEP_REBOOT
  File "/tmp/update-manager-rA1F55/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeView.py", line 35, in <module>
    from .DistUpgradeApport import apport_pkgfailure
  File "/tmp/update-manager-rA1F55/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeApport.py", line 10, in <module>
    from apport.hookutils import root_command_output
ImportError: No module named apport.hookutils
scp: /var/log/dist-upgrade/*: No such file or directory

https://jenkins.qa.ubuntu.com/view/Quantal/view/Upgrade%20Testing%20Dashboard/job/quantal-upgrade-precise-server/155/ARCH=amd64,LTS=non-lts,PROFILE=server,label=upgrade-test/

contains the logs