Ubuntu dependency editing UI is fairly useless
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Launchpad itself |
Fix Released
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High
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Celso Providelo |
Bug Description
r7374 adds a UI to IArchive/
The wording is dodgy: 'Security dependencies'? 'Backports dependencies'? What? 'Tested updates'? Backports are tested to an extent.
It's also impossible to use for some SRUs, as -proposed isn't enablable separately from -backports.
Congratulations, you have managed to design a UI with one more widget than is necessary for a rather more flexible and understandable UI. What would be wrong with checkboxes for (updates|
Changed in soyuz: | |
status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
Thanks for reporting this problem quickly, Willian.
There is a problem with the last option label, -proposed doesn't include -backports.
Additionally we can work on the labels in a way they match the terminology already used in the desktop application (see `software- properties- gtk` 'Updates' tab).