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  1. Bug #876146
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Comment 3 for bug 876146

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Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote : Re: Upgrading Ubuntu is risky (unusable or unbootable PC). The Upgrade Popup does not warn of the risks or offers fail-safe alternatives. This is a mouse trap for unsuspecting users.

manny, thanks for this report. I understand your frustration and that of others on the forums.

To address your points in order:

<http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1860359> obviously illustrates a bug, but the thread does not yet contain any information that a developer could use to identify and fix the bug. If any of the threads linked from <http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1858475> represent a reproducible bug, please do report it individually so it can be fixed.

If upgrading works only some of the time, warning the user is not a reasonable solution -- because it would be asking them to make a decision that they can't possibly have enough information to make. (Will it work on my machine? Nobody knows!) There are two practical solutions: make upgrading more reliable, or not offer the function at all.

Future Ubuntu releases will likely allow automated feedback on whether upgrades succeeded. That will be much more representative, and useful, than manual reporting.

And finally, if any changes are made to the release cycle, they are unlikely to themselves be tracked in bug reports.

For future reference, the Ayatana Design project is a dummy project used by the designers of Unity specifically. It is not for process problems or bugs in packages outside of Unity.