Documentation refers to apt-offline which no longer ships in Focal Fossa

Bug #1855621 reported by Stephen Michael Kellat
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Bug Description

The currently shipped documentation in Focal Fossa refers to apt-offline for offline package management. We don't ship that any more. Offline package management is pretty much broken as a paradigm with the advent of snap, Flatpak, and AppImage in addition to the traditional Debian packages.

Patch to the documentation text is attached to fix things for now until something better can be written. Research is required in a further follow-up.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: xubuntu-docs 18.04.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.3.0-18.19-generic 5.3.1
Uname: Linux 5.3.0-18-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu13
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Sun Dec 8 17:24:48 2019
Dependencies:

InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-11-05 (33 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 20.04 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Alpha amd64 (20191104)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: xubuntu-docs
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Stephen Michael Kellat (skellat) wrote :
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Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton) wrote :

The attachment "Patch to remove language concerning apt-offline" seems to be a patch. If it isn't, please remove the "patch" flag from the attachment, remove the "patch" tag, and if you are a member of the ~ubuntu-reviewers, unsubscribe the team.

[This is an automated message performed by a Launchpad user owned by ~brian-murray, for any issues please contact him.]

tags: added: patch
Sean Davis (bluesabre)
Changed in xubuntu-docs (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
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Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa) wrote :

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/1855621

tags: added: iso-testing
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Sean Davis (bluesabre) wrote :

References to apt-offline have been removed in the 22.04 version of the documentation.

Changed in xubuntu-docs (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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