Ubuntu
update-manager package

Wish: Indicate source of each upgrade

Bug #175394 reported by era on 2007-12-10

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	update-manager (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: update-manager

I'm subscribed to "gutsy-proposed" and "gutsy-backports". Every so often, I wish update-manager would indicate that an update belongs to either of these two; or, more generally, perhaps it could always display the source of an update as part of the routine.

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote on 2008-01-31:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Thanks in advance.

Changed in update-manager:
status:	New → Incomplete

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era (era) wrote on 2008-02-01:

Unless you have fixed it in Hardy and nobody thought to report that here, it's still a problem, yes. Do you have reason to believe that it is fixed? Do you need repro steps?

1. Observe orange icon on Gnome top toolbar
2. Click on it to open the update manager

Result:
Wonder which updates are gutsy-security, which are gutsy-proposed, and which are gutsy-backports

Desired result:
A way to find out so you don't have to wonder

Changed in update-manager:
status:	Incomplete → New

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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote on 2008-02-01:

Update grouping Edit (59.6 KiB, image/png)

Thanks for your bugreport.

We show small captions in update-manager for security, updates, proposed and backports. I attached a screenshot with a example. If that does not work for you, then this maybe a differnet bug. Could you please attach a screenshot (or a description) of the captions you see for the updates?

Thanks,
Michael

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era (era) wrote on 2008-02-06:

Duh, my bad, I just hadn't realized that these were "it" -- they don't use the terminology I'm used to, i.e. "gutsy-proposed", "gutsy-backports", etc. Maybe that could be changed somehow but I'll mark this as "invalid" now and go sulk in a corner,