Kpackedkit update details inform that there are no update descriptions

Bug #528679 reported by Surak
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: kpackagekit

I have Kubuntu Karmic Koala installed in 2 notebooks. One with the 32 bit version and the other with the 64 bit one, both configured with Brazilian Portuguese.

When kpackagekit (0.4.2-0ubuntu3) shows the available updates and you click to select one of them, it opens details ("detalhes") box, but it only says "Nenhuma descrição de atualização foi encontrada" (no update descripton has been found).

This happens with both of my notebooks and is highly inconvenient because I need to switch to Gnome in order to know what kind of update is to be performed.

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Surak (smkozasa) wrote :
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Surak (smkozasa) wrote :

I have noticed that the descriptions on the details box have been fixed, probably since Kubuntu 10.04, maybe before. Nevertheless, Sometimes it still shows the "no update description has been foud" message when the highlighted package is related to kernel headers. I can't remember exactly which one showed the problem, only that it happened only with some of the packets related to the kernel update, not all.

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Uwe Geuder (ubuntulp-ugeuder) wrote :

Yes, this happens from time to time lin Lucid. It looks like a network error (I guess it fetches the description from a Canonical server). But it happens at least 10 times more frequently than network errors in other programs, e.g. Browser. So I'm sure this could be somehow improved in kpackagekit. Maybe just retrying if the first attempt fails? (I understand browsers do this)

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Surak (smkozasa) wrote :

This bug still happens for updates related to the kernel. I'm adding a screenshot from kpackagekit showing security updates to libdevmapper1.02.1.

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Daniel Nicoletti (dantti) wrote :

Actually this is not a network problem.
The packagekit backend tries to fetch the a server to get the changelog but sometimes it is not available.
In KPackageKit 0.6 it will still show some info even if it couldn't get the changelog. Also if you have sources from partners and such they might not even provide the changelog.
So this isn't a bug, it's just a server behavior.
Best.

Changed in kpackagekit (Ubuntu):
status: New → Invalid
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Surak (smkozasa) wrote : Re: [Bug 528679] Re: Kpackedkit update details inform that there are no update descriptions

This problem seems to be solved with Kubuntu 10.10 Maverick
Meerkat. KPackeKit was reformulated and is very good. It shows
descriptions most of the times I need to update.

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Em 02-12-2010 17:24, Daniel Nicoletti escreveu:
> Actually this is not a network problem.
> The packagekit backend tries to fetch the a server to get the changelog but sometimes it is not available.
> In KPackageKit 0.6 it will still show some info even if it couldn't get the changelog. Also if you have sources from partners and such they might not even provide the changelog.
> So this isn't a bug, it's just a server behavior.
> Best.
>
> ** Changed in: kpackagekit (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Invalid
>

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