rephrase update message about adding or updating Flash

[Nick]

During an update to Ubuntu 2016.04.2 desktop amd64, a message said that it was adding or updating Adobe Flash. I don't have the exact wording. After an extensive forum discussion (https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2372341&p=13689880 (as accessed 10-13-17)), it turns out that Flash never arrived on my machine. I didn't want it, so I'm glad, but I suggest a more precise wording in your message about updating would have reduced concern about unwanted software being added. For example, if it had said something like, "If you have Flash, we will update it. If you don't have it, we'll ask if you want it." Since Flash risks security, the latter message would have been more reassuring.

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[Nick (nick-levinson)]

I've now tentatively identified the package (I didn't see it before). You also request logs from </var/log/dist-upgrade/>, but that directory is empty even for sudo. I don't have a chat setup.

At any rate, since this is about a message with an update, my guess is that the problem is not in the Ubuntu client installation but at a Ubuntu server sending updates, and I don't know how your servers' files are organized.

[Nick (nick-levinson)]

I accepted your offered alternative to the package I identified because you say the package I identified is not part of Ubuntu, but the list of packages (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/FindRightPackage (as accessed 10-16-17)) lists it unless I misunderstand your version numbering.

[Nick (nick-levinson)]

Correction: While this website's list of packages identified ubuntu-release-upgrader-core as the likeliest package for this report, reporting that package was refused by the website, preferring ubuntu-release-upgrader, all this was on 2017-10-16, and I had the version numbering right. I don't know enough to figure out which package or package name it should be. Thanks.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

ubuntu-release-upgrader-core is a binary package provided by the source package ubuntu-release-upgrader. Launchpad tracks source packages as the code changes happen in the source package which produce the binary.

The wiki page should probably be modified to mention the source package and not the binary one.