"Partial upgrade" is a misleading term

[Michael Terry]

Binary package hint: update-manager

When update-manager wants to do a "Partial upgrade" rather than a normal upgrade, I'm always a little confused. What it's really doing is a strictly more comprehensive upgrade than a normal upgrade. It should be called "Full upgrade" or something like that.

I think I understand where the name came from. It's a partial upgrade between distribution versions? Like, I'm on the development version and need to do an action that looks like a distribution-version upgrade, but a smaller one?

But that's not update-manager's normal mode and I didn't initiate a distribution-version upgrade. So when presented with this option, my first instict is to cancel the dialog and *not* do a partial upgrade, because I want a full upgrade. But that results in only upgrading some of my packages (which I would argue is the actual partial upgrade). It should flip the phrase around.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: update-manager 1:0.142.11
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-19.28-generic 2.6.35.3
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-19-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Sep 4 08:18:15 2010
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: update-manager

[Vish (vish)]

This is not a bug actually.
Its mostly due to package archive inconsistencies, and which will typically be resolved within a few hours. :
More info: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1479146

However , we could try and improve the wording, since several are getting confused .
Could you attach a screenshot of the dialogue window?

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