upgrade not possible with 0.45.3

[Sebastian Geiger]

Binary package hint: update-manager

if i choose the proposed updates in synapic then im offered to install the 0.45.3 version of update-manager, yet this on doesent allow me to upgrade to feisty, i had to manually downgrade to 0.45.2 using:

sudo apt-get install update-manager=0.45.2

then the little button appeared again and i could upgrade.

TEST CASE:
To test the failure that this bug fixes you would have to install 0.45.3 that is no longer available. This is why the instructions just contain a positive test, not a negative one.

0. use edgy
1. install update-manager 0.45.4 from edgy-proposed
2. run update-manager and verify that there is a new release avaialble button
3. close update-manager
4. open it again and verify that the button to upgrade is still available

[Sebastian Geiger (lanoxx)]

Please refer to: https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/5191

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks for your bugreport.

I can (currently) not verify the error, can you please apply the attached patch to /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/UpdateManager/MetaRelease.py and run update-manager again from a terminal? It should print a useful error message then. Please attach the output here then.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

I was able to reproduce this now and a fix is underway.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Accepted into edgy-proposed.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Fix for feisty:
http://codebrowse.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-core-dev/update-manager/main/revision/michael.vogt%40ubuntu.com-20070423125344-ezztzzbwr8suwapk?start_revid=michael.vogt%40ubuntu.com-20070424111329-d5otfhnrwzlqamjc

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Accepted into feisty-proposed, please go ahead with QA testing.

[Paul Hoell (hoellp)]

I got update-manager 0.45.4 installed, and it still gives me no option to upgrade, same goes for 0.45.2...
Nothing I did, including starting with a clean .update-manager folder shows me the button to upgrade to feisty.
Are there any news and/or suggestions on this bug?
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[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

This is has sitted in edgy-proposed for over 200 days already. Can it please be verified or declared as obsolete?

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

I will remove this SRU from edgy-proposed next week if no further action happens.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

The status of this is that 0.45.4 fixes #107716 (send pragma: no-cache) and a regression introduced in 0.45.3.

I will add verification instructions for both reports.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

I investigated this bug and #107716 again and it is not needed to push it into edgy-updates anymore. The fix in #107716 was about adding a "pragma: no-cache" header when the meta-release file was downloaded to work around over agressive proxies. In the meantime all proxies will have updated the meta-release information so this update is not required anymore and 0.45.2 from edgy-updates does just fine.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Removed from edgy-proposed, thanks Michael.