Google Chrome is a "package of bad quality"

[Freerk]

TEST CASE:
Ubuntu Software Center 5.4, Ubuntu Q

1. Download Google Chrome from <http://google.com/chrome>.
2. Open the download.
3. In Ubuntu Software Center, choose "Install".

What happens: A confirmation alert appears, "The package is of bad quality". <https://launchpadlibrarian.net/119361646/The%20package%20is%20of%20bad%20quality.png>

What should happen: The package installs without problems.

This might require changes to USC, or it might require working with Google to improve their Chrome packages.

(Not to be confused with bug 1047419, about showing the correct Details in the alert, or bug 1032104 on the quality of the error message itself. This bug report is just the fact that Chrome specifically triggers an error.)

[Edward Donovan (edward.donovan)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Unfortunately, we cannot work on this bug because your description didn't include enough information. You may find it helpful to read "How to report bugs effectively" http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html. We'd be grateful if you would then provide a more complete description of the problem.

We have instructions on debugging some types of problems at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProcedures

At a minimum, we need:
1. the specific steps or actions you took that caused you to encounter the problem,
2. the behavior you expected, and
3. the behavior you actually encountered (in as much detail as possible).
Thanks!

[Freerk (freerk-ostrain)]

I know what it was, and good to know for you too; I did not get a
warning while installing Google Chrome from a downloaded file, that
Synaptic was still on.
I Shut down Synaptic and chrome installed without any problem

Freerk Jongsma

Op 03/10/12 09:06, Edward Donovan schreef:
> Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
> Ubuntu better. Unfortunately, we cannot work on this bug because your
> description didn't include enough information. You may find it helpful
> to read "How to report bugs effectively"
> http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html. We'd be grateful
> if you would then provide a more complete description of the problem.
>
> We have instructions on debugging some types of problems at
> http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProcedures
>
> At a minimum, we need:
> 1. the specific steps or actions you took that caused you to encounter the problem,
> 2. the behavior you expected, and
> 3. the behavior you actually encountered (in as much detail as possible).
> Thanks!
>
>
> ** Changed in: software-center (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

aptdaemon actually contains the "bad quality" code.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

The details page says:

Lintian check results for /home/egon/Downloads/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb:
E: google-chrome-stable: file-in-etc-not-marked-as-conffile etc/cron.daily/google-chrome

Which is not a good reason to mark the package as bad quiality.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package aptdaemon - 0.45+bzr877-0ubuntu1

---------------
aptdaemon (0.45+bzr877-0ubuntu1) raring; urgency=low

  * New upstream snapshot:
    - ignore lintian "file-in-etc-not-marked-as-conffile" (LP: #1060505)
 -- Michael Vogt <email address hidden> Fri, 30 Nov 2012 08:28:18 +0100

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Hello Freerk, or anyone else affected,

Accepted aptdaemon into quantal-proposed. The package will build now and be available at http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/aptdaemon/0.45+bzr861-0ubuntu9.1.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

[wowberk (jrvilda)]

The final behavior of this bug is similar to #712377 and this have importance high in ubuntu-11.04. I think that in ubuntu-12.10 should be the same importance.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

I tested this on Ubuntu 12.10 using aptdaemon version 0.45+bzr861-0ubuntu9.1.1 and no longer receive the error message regarding Google Chrome being "a package of bad quality".

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

quantal has seen the end of its life and is no longer receiving any updates. Marking the quantal task for this ticket as "Won't Fix".