Package descriptions are sometimes incorrect and do not match descriptions stored in the package database
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Adept Manager |
Fix Released
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Medium
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adept (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: adept
Adept sometimes fills in the description field for a package from the data from another package.
For example, a few minutes ago on my system, the klettres-data description was: "subversion io slave for KDE", which is actually the description of a package that I installed and uninstalled yesterday: kdesdk-kio-plugins.
I have seen this happen several times now: under certain circumstances (I don't know what) adept displays the details of a package X that has been installed or uninstalled recently, in place of the correct description for package Y.
I'm sorry I cannot give more details. This is a sporadic bug that I cannot produce at will. It is an extremely annoying bug, though, because it means that one can easily be led to install a package X which one thinks does something when in fact it does something completely different. This has happened to me a couple of times now.
Changed in adeptmgr: | |
status: | Unknown → Fix Released |
Changed in adeptmgr: | |
importance: | Unknown → Medium |
Thank you for filing this bug.
What version of Kubuntu are you using? Are you still experiencing this problem on latest Edgy or Feisty?