Ubuntu
update-manager package

--dist-upgrade mentioned in man page, but not available

Bug #1079136 reported by Benjamin Drung
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This bug affects 3 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
update-manager (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
Robert Roth

Bug Description

The man page of update-manager says, that there is a --dist-upgrade option. Calling update-manager --dist-upgrade fails:

Usage: update-manager [opitons]

update-manager: error: no such option: --dist-upgrade

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: update-manager 1:0.174.3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-18.29-generic 3.5.7
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-18-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu6
Aptdaemon:

Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Nov 15 12:44:48 2012
GsettingsChanges:
 b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'first-run' b'false'
 b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'launch-time' b'1352544728'
 b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'show-details' b'true'
 b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'window-height' b'822'
 b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'window-width' b'600'
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-04-24 (204 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta amd64 (20120421)
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: update-manager
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-10-22 (23 days ago)

Related branches

lp:~evfool/update-manager/lp1079136
Michael Vogt (community): Approve
Diff: 12 lines (+0/-3)
1 file modified
data/update-manager.8 (+0/-3)
lp:update-manager
lp:ubuntu/saucy-proposed/update-manager
Revision history for this message
Benjamin Drung (bdrung) wrote :
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in update-manager (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)
tags: added: manpage raring
Robert Roth (evfool)
Changed in update-manager (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Robert Roth (evfool)
status: Confirmed → In Progress
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package update-manager - 1:0.189

---------------
update-manager (1:0.189) saucy; urgency=low

  [ Jeremy Bicha ]
  * Drop unused system-software-update icons since it is a
    standard theme icon

  [ Robert Roth ]
  * Remove dist-upgrade option description from manpage (LP: #1079136)

  [ Dylan McCall ]
  * Refactor dialogs to have a common base.
  * tests/test_update_error.py: Fix test regression from the above.

  [ Martin Pitt ]
  * Drop obsolete GObject.threads_init() calls to avoid warnings at startup.
    Bump python-gi dependency accordingly.
  * Drop unused imports and assignments to fix pyflakes errors.
  * Fix PEP-8 errors.
  * tests/test_update_error.py: Adjust test_error_no_updates() to current
    string.
 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Fri, 12 Jul 2013 08:02:21 +0200

Changed in update-manager (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Fix Released
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