wrong count in update-notifier tooltip

[Philippe Saint-Pierre]

Note: I don't think this is the same as #28827, but I'm not totally sure.

I'm using Ubuntu 8.04.

I'm encountering a strange bug. Hovering the mouse over the update-notifier icon, the tooltip says (all the time, even after a reboot and "apt-get update" too) that there is 1 update available (with the security icon). However, when I click on it and open the update manager, it tells me I have 65 updates available (some security patches, recommended and proposed too)

My system is fully working, so it's definitely not a rush priority, I just noticed that this was wrong.

Mvo in #ubuntu-bugs helped me and he gave me a modified version of apt-check, to test things. Attached is the modified version he made.

Here is what this script returns when I run it :

[EDIT : typo]

stpere@stpere-desktop:~/intelisoft$ python ./apt-check.test2
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
checking updates
is marked install or marked upgrade
1;1stpere@stpere-desktop:~/intelisoft$

And also this with the -p parameter :
danielle@danielle-desktop:~/intelisoft$ python ./apt-check.test2 -p
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
checking updates
is marked install or marked upgrade
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[Philippe Saint-Pierre (stpere)]

Fixed! I found the solution!

In the counting loop, there was a "break" where should have been a "continue" (line 112)

Here is my modified version. Sorry, it's not a diff file (I overwrote the original already..) but a complete file.

[Mehdi Hassanpour (mehdi)]

I can confirm this bug too...

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Attached is properly formatted diff for this fix.

[dg1727 (dg1727)]

The suggested patch seems to have been applied to /usr/lib/update-notifier/apt-check as of Ubuntu 13.04 Raring. (The affected line of that file now seems to be line 136.)