After doing an update, a plain and innocent looking message comes up saying:
"A new distribution version is available! Click next if you wish to upgrade now."
This can cause much trouble for someone who does not know the potential ramifications. I feel that a warning about the magnitude of the situation is in order. This is different than just installing and uninstalling new software - there is no easy way back. A beginner who has grown to trust Adept likely does not know this.
I recently witnessed someone upgrade from Kubuntu Hardy to Jaunty and consequently losing their internet connection, ability to access a second drive (it was NTFS), and being presented with a radically new desktop environment. Things got sorted out over the next couple of weeks, but this situation could have been extremely discouraging to a beginner. From looking at the net, many other people doing the exact same upgrade encountered this "surprise", but I think it could be important with other upgrades as well. Again, perhaps a warning about the potential ramifications of a version upgrade would be in order.
Agreed, "Distribution version" isn't exactly clear to novice or even intermediate users.
I'm guessing this text is common to many versions Linux Distributions using Adept to update.
Recommend that this be changed to add text like "major upgrade" and specifically mention Ubuntu (or Kubuntu etc) to reinforce the fact that this change is OS wide, and not app or package specific
also link to a help page detailing Ubuntu's release cycles