Broken packages result in meaningless error message
Bug #133325 reported by
Warbo
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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update-manager (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: update-manager
If broken packages are on the system then update manager brings up an error message asking the user to "use the broken fileter", which is a feature of Synaptic which is not accessible from the update manager tool. The text should be changed to read something like "Broken packages were found on this system. The update tool cannot correct this, please use a different package tool to fix this issue", perhaps with a button to open Synaptic if it is installed.
Thanks for your bugreport.
Update-manager should already be able to detect broken packages and display a meaningful error message. Could you please tell me how to reproduce this problem and maybe attach a screenshot ?