"Software Sources" disappears from the menu after upgrade to Maverick

[Данило Шеган]

After upgrading two of my computers to Maverick (both from Lucid, none of them was a clean Lucid install but instead going back to at least Karmic), "Software Sources" launcher has disappeared from System -> Administration menu. I had to use alacarte to re-enable it (it was all fine after that).

Both systems were fully up-to-date Lucid installations at the time with only a few PPAs used (like language-packs PPA, Launchpad PPA and similar: none of them should have affected these packages). I performed the upgrade using "update-manager -d".

Considering this is usually a first thing you've got to go to after upgrading (to re-enable your PPAs and similar), it might be an important issue. I wouldn't be reporting it if it didn't happen on both of my machines. FWIW, it might be a problem in the setup process (does it disable the menu item when it disables all the "external" repos?).

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: software-properties-gtk 0.76.7
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.33-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Sep 24 15:14:34 2010
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=sr_RS:sr
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=sr_RS.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: software-properties

[Данило Шеган (danilo)]

Looking at what mpt writes in bug 634987, this seems to not be a bug, but a design choice. I guess the fact that I like software-sources capplet (especially for PPA integration), and the fact that I use aptitude for package management puts me out of any target user groups :)