String-freeze exception for scary third party vendor string
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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software-center (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Michael Vogt | ||
Precise |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Michael Vogt |
Bug Description
software-center 4.0.2, Ubuntu 11.04
In the overview of software in Software Centre that does not come from the officially supported archives, a warning text is shown informing the user that this particular piece of software is not supported by Canonical, but that updates MAY be delivered by the community/a third-party. It is not only shown for software from community-
Although this message is factually correct, it is a scary message. Users might get the impression that by default no updates should be expected, but if you are lucky something might be done. Especially for paid applications, this might not be very encouraging towards users.
I would suggest to change the warning from a negative formulation to a positive: updates for this software are provided by X. Not Canonical, etc.
Furthermore, this message is also shown for packages from the Canonical Partner archive--which is maintained by Canonical, AFAI. Is that desired behaviour?
See also bug 579855 and bug 659993.
tags: | added: client-server |
description: | updated |
Changed in software-center (Ubuntu Precise): | |
status: | Triaged → In Progress |
Thank you for taking the time to report this issue and helping to make Ubuntu better.
Examining the information you have given us, this does not appear to be a bug report so I am closing it and converting it to a question in the support tracker.
c0nsaw