info field wrongly called "URI" in synaptic download window

[B Bobo]

While downloading updates in synaptic, click the option in the download window to show the full details of each package being downloaded. The window shows a table of details. The last column is called "URI", but this is wrong as it seems to be showing something more like Ubuntu package location syntax, instead of properly formed URIs.

Either the URI column should be showing URIs, or the column label should be changed to something else. Showing URIs would almost certainly be more useful. If somebody decides to look into this, the text in that table also really needs to be made selectable and copyable.

Affects synaptic versions from 0.75.9ubuntu1 to 0.80.2 at least.

[B Bobo (yout-bobo123)]

awful launchpad interface confounds again

[Daniel Hartwig (wigs)]

B Bobo wrote:
> You have been subscribed to a public bug:
>
> The last column is called "URI", but
> this is wrong as it seems to be showing something more like Ubuntu
> package location syntax, instead of properly formed URIs.
>

Please provide an example this data you consider to be mislabelled.

[B Bobo (yout-bobo123)]

I can't! The text in the download window is non-selectable and non-copyable, and the window is disappearing too quickly to be able to do a screenshot.

Have you tried opening the download window yourself?

You should see lines beginning http://us.ubuntu.whatever.com/kjaubuntu/precisiple/ main/quidkd
with some of the slashes ripped out that would otherwise make it a valid URI. It looks like Ubuntu package location syntax or whatever the strange spaced-out syntax for package locations is called.

[gf (gf-interlinks-deactivatedaccount)]

Hello B Bobo,
Thank you for submitting this bug and reporting a problem with synaptic. You made this bug report some time ago and Ubuntu has been updated since then.

Could you confirm that this is no longer a problem and that we can close the ticket?
If it is still a problem, are you still interested in finding a solution to this bug?
If you are, could you let us know, and in the current version, run the following (only once):
apport-collect BUGNUMBER
and upload the updated logs and and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.

Thank you again for helping make Ubuntu better.
G

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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