update-manager installs packages when the tick boxes are not ticked

Bug #390653 reported by jiason
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
update-manager (Ubuntu)
Expired
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: update-manager

1) lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 9.04
Release: 9.04

2) apt-cache policy update-manager
update-manager:
  Installed: 1:0.111.9
  Candidate: 1:0.111.9
  Version table:
 *** 1:0.111.9 0
        500 http://tw.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1:0.111.7 0
        500 http://tw.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages

3) What you expected to happen
do not install ttf-mscorefonts-installer and cabextract if I choose to not to install them.

4) What happened instead
update-manager installs ttf-mscorefonts-installer and cabextract without permission.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: update-manager 1:0.111.9
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: update-manager
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-13-generic i686

Revision history for this message
jiason (listjiason) wrote :
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XXXXXXX (yddraiggoch) wrote :

Confirming this. Same thing just happened to me with the tix and tk8.4 packages.

Changed in update-manager (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
summary: - update-manager installs ttf-mscorefonts-installer and cabextract without
- permission
+ update-manager installs packages when the tick boxes are not ticked
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RedSingularity (redsingularity) wrote :

Cleaning up. Is this still an issue in the current stable release?
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Changed in update-manager (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

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

Changed in update-manager (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Expired
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