Poor wording of suggestion box message for "Apt authentication issue"

Bug #409532 reported by Steve Dee
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
apt (Ubuntu)
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Undecided
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Bug Description

When apt encounters an authentication error during an upgrade, it advises you to "try to click on" a button. As long as the accessibility team is doing its job right, you should never "try", and then fail, to click on the button. You should click on the button to try to correct the problem.

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Steve Dee (mrdomino) wrote :
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wijit (awijit) wrote :

Steve, I'm pretty sure that you and me were suffered by exactly the same result - update failure. However, because too little information was supplied by you, I decided to report mine as a new thread. Also #383445 reported by izantout was informative and very similar to us but I thought he was wrong about the causal package.

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Torsten Spindler (tspindler) wrote :

It is unclear to me which component generates the dialog. If the problem still exists in Ubuntu, can you detail the steps to get to the dialog?

Changed in apt (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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Robert Roth (evfool) wrote :

The source does contain the file with the text pictured in the screenshot, but I didn't find any reference to it. I think it is not used anymore.

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Torsten Spindler (tspindler) wrote :

Per the last comment the problem is no longer in apt, so marking the bug as fix released.

Changed in apt (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Fix Released
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