Updater lists many transitional dummy packages
Bug #1166230 reported by
Steve Magoun
This bug affects 2 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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update-manager (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Medium
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Matthew Paul Thomas |
Bug Description
update-manager 1:0.185, Ubuntu 13.04
The update-manager GUI lists a number of "Transitional dummy packages" available for update. There doesn't seem to be any additional information available about these packages through the UI. As a user I have no idea what I am supposed to do with them.
I suggest grouping the "transitional dummy package" under the "Ubuntu base" section in update-manager, so that they are not displayed to the end user by default.
To reproduce:
1) Run Software Updater from the dash
2) Look at the list of updates in the "Details of updates" list
The Ubuntu Software Center equivalent is bug 526330.
Changed in update-manager (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
status: | New → Triaged |
assignee: | nobody → Michael Terry (mterry) |
description: | updated |
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I'll assign to mpt for suggestions, but I suspect he'll rightly say that this is really a bug with those packages, and you shouldn't blame the container for its contents.
Specifically, Debian policy says this about the one-line description synopsis: "Remember that in many situations the user may only see the synopsis line - make it as informative as you can. " Clearly "transitional dummy package" could not be described as informative.
Most of these transitional packages can be identified by "Section: oldlibs", so we could actually group them separately if we wanted to.