Update-manager should not incentivate to do Partial Updates
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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update-manager (Ubuntu) |
Expired
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Undecided
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: update-manager
From my experience UM offers Partial Upgrade when it fails to get a package due to not built, FATBFS or FTBFD.
It also does it, for dependencies replacement upgrades.
Current string even promotes the use of it.
But running it during development cycle leads to the removal of package for which dependencies are not ready, and I have no idea what i can do for stable releases.
Can this option (Partial Upgrades) be removed or improved, and if needed left for Synaptic or apt dist-upgrade?
see screenshot of text string
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed May 6 23:15:27 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelMo
Package: update-manager 1:0.120
PackageArchitec
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: update-manager
Uname: Linux 2.6.30-2-generic x86_64
From what I remember (and from my experience with apt-get upgrade) packages that can't be upgraded are just held back and not removed. Also sometimes doing partial upgrade during development cycle may break system or at least some parts of it..
Maybe this dialog should be made more verbose (at least during development) ?