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"Mark all Upgrades" should be grayed out if there are no upgrades

Bug #186449 reported by Endolith on 2008-01-27

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #595127: Synaptic's 'Mark all upgrades' button is active even when there are no upgradable packages. Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	synaptic (Ubuntu)	Triaged	Wishlist	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: synaptic

The "Mark All Upgrades" button in Synaptic should only be active if there are actually upgrades available.

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Paul Gevers (paul-climbing) wrote on 2008-09-27:

True. Wish list item I would say.

Changed in synaptic:
status:	New → Confirmed

Markus Korn (thekorn) on 2008-11-02

Changed in synaptic:
importance:	Undecided → Wishlist

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Tomasz Chrzczonowicz (tch) wrote on 2010-01-08:

I guess it's a bug as it's misleading.

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Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman) wrote on 2010-07-09:

It'd be quite trivial to set the enabled state of the button based on the number of upgradeable packages available.

However, while it is quite easy to see which packages have a higher version available, it cannot be known if the package can actually be upgraded until it is actually attempted to mark the package for upgrade, since that is when dependency resolution is done.

How I've handled this for the Muon package manager is to set the enabled state for the upgrade action solely based on the number of upgraded packages, but it also checks after attempting to mark the packages as upgraded to see if any packages were actually marked. If not, it gives a little explanatory message telling why, in some cases, packages may not be upgradeable, be it due to a data package common to all Ubuntu-supported architectures, archive skew, or plain broken packages.

It shouldn't be too difficult to somebody familiar with GTK+. (But alas, I don't really know GTK+, being a Qt man myself)

Changed in synaptic (Ubuntu):
status:	Confirmed → Triaged

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Robert Roth (evfool) wrote on 2011-02-16:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #595127, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.