Comment 34 for bug 1604750

@jokrebel, hi
What is your status-interval set to (how many seconds between status bar updates) ?
When you still have a red 3! (or whatever the number) after an upgrade - can you press the F5 key a few times to see if the red 3! update goes away ?
The additional check for if the cache file is newer than /var/log/dpkg.log at the next status update cycle should cause update_cache() to run again and this should be after the update has completed and thus should echo a "0 0" to the cache file and the red 3! to go away.