"Do you want to start the upgrade?" gives 56 K modem estimate

Bug #764836 reported by Matthew Paul Thomas
14
This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
update-manager (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

1. Install the previous version of Ubuntu.
2. Launch Update Manager or Software Updater.
3. Advance to the "Do you want to start the upgrade?" step.

What you see: Something like "You have to download a total of 1,102M. This download will take about 2 hours 20 minutes with a 1Mbit DSL connection and about 1 day 18 hours with a 56k modem."

It's likely that some people still use Ubuntu on dial-up, but giving an estimate this way makes Ubuntu look old. We should find a more sensible way to present the estimate, for example, showing the 56k version only if you *do* have a 56k connection.

<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReleaseUpgrades#ready>: "The time should be calculated based on how long the package indexes took to download..."

description: updated
Changed in update-manager (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Low
Revision history for this message
Michael Jørgensen (mjoergen) wrote :

Ten years have passed ...

I think the prevalence of dial-up modems has decreased to almost non-existence by now. Please rephrase the text in the dialog.

tags: added: foundations-triage-discuss
To post a comment you must log in.
This report contains Public information  
Everyone can see this information.

Other bug subscribers

Remote bug watches

Bug watches keep track of this bug in other bug trackers.