Comment 14 for bug 942590

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Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote : Re: update-manager misguiding text

The primary text for an alert should be complete sentences, regardless of whether it is bold.

    The software on this computer is up to date.

It's easy to understand this when considering that sometimes the primary text is a question.

    Are you sure you want to close all programs and log out of the computer?

And sometimes it is multiple sentences.

    Ubuntu can’t be updated at the moment. Please try again later.

It would be inconsistent for some of these sentences to have punctuation while others didn't.