canceling the language support download gives confusing error message

[Martin Pitt]

Binary package hint: ubiquity

When I cancel the downloading of extra language support, I now get an error dialog saying:

  Failed to fetch <package URL>.

  Those pacakges are in a broken state:
  [empty list]

This is confusing and the dialog should not appear at all.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Currently scripts/install.py:install_language_packs() does the same for "SystemError" and "IOException". The later are fetch problems if the expection would be changed and a new template would be added, that should be cleaner.

A better fix would be to add something like a FetchProgressUserCanceledException that python-at can throw so that you can just not display anything in this case. I will be happy to implement it if you like this suggestion.

Cheers,
 Michale

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

I added the following exception for stuff that invovles fetching packages/indexfiles (in python-apt 0.7.2ubuntu2):

FetchCancelledException, FetchFailedException, LockFailedException

(subclasses of IOError)

Cheers,
 Michael

[Robert Roth (evfool)]

Is this bug still valid? No action was taken on this bug in the last three years, and I haven't even found the method mentioned... Ubiquity has received lots of love in the last three years. Can anyone reconfirm this?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for ubiquity (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]