Restart notification after update contains a grammar error

[Peter Berry]

Binary package hint: update-manager

After installing updates requiring a restart (kernel update, etc.), a notification box appears saying:

"To complete your system update, please restart it."

Here "it" can only refer to the unique noun phrase in the preceding clause, namely "system update". But the system update does not need to be restarted; it is the *system* that needs to be restarted. The following wording would be correct:

"To finish updating your system, please restart it."

[Robert Roth (evfool)]

Which version of ubuntu and update-manager do you use? Did the text appear in a dialog or inline, on the update-manager window?

[Peter Berry (pwberry)]

This is Maverick with all updates as of now (aptitude lists update-manager package version 1:0.142.22). The message appears in a notification bubble, as I said.

[Robert Roth (evfool)]

Reassigning to the update-notifier package, as that is the one displaying the notification bubble.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package update-notifier - 0.116ubuntu1

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update-notifier (0.116ubuntu1) oneiric; urgency=low

  * Fixed restart required notification wording. (LP: #680685)
 -- Michael Vogt <email address hidden> Wed, 27 Jul 2011 14:24:37 +0200