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update-manager package

update manager fails to group packages

Bug #398052 reported by Craig Hansen on 2009-07-11

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #89284: Group packages in the list. Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	One Hundred Papercuts	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned
	update-manager (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Wishlist	Unassigned

Bug Description

The Update Manager doesn't group packages together that (1) would all be updated together and (2) all have the same descriptive changes.

For example, today we got a set of 11 updates, to packages icedtea-6-jre-cacao, icedtea6-plugin, libxcb-render0, libxcb-shape0, libxcb-shm0, libxcb-xv0, libxcb1, openjdk-6-jre, openjdk-6-jre-headless, and openjdk-6-jre-lib. As far as I can see, having to click on each one one-at-a-time to see the description of update, this is _two_ updates.

Almost everyone will update all these packages or none of them, rather than go to that effort. I'm sure some developer gearhead out there might install them individually, or have some obscure reason he _must_ have this feature, but if there's any hope of fixing "bug 1," the current interface is too complicated and takes too long to understand the nature of the updates.

Ideally, the description of the update would give me a clue about the importance or reason for the update in some language more understandable than "apply missing pulseaudio bounds checking patch to 1.4.1," just for example, so that I could decide whether I should chew up 28.7 MB of bandwidth, but I'll settle for merely grouping the similar package updates together.

Revision history for this message

Lightbreeze (nedhoy-gmail) wrote on 2009-07-11:

Rest assured when you sleep at night, the design team is well aware of these issues :-)
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AppCenter#October%202009 is being developed for Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala.

A 'paper cut' is a minor usability problem likely to effect the average user first day using a fresh install of Ubuntu 9.10. This is not a 'paper cut' because the list of packages will likely be hidden in Ubuntu 9.10.

Don't worry, though, this is a valid issue, just not a 'paper cut'. Thank you for taking the time to report this bug!

Changed in hundredpapercuts:
status:	New → Invalid

Michael Vogt (mvo) on 2009-07-16

Changed in update-manager (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Wishlist
status:	New → Confirmed

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Robert Roth (evfool) wrote on 2011-07-26:

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 #89284, 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.
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