Launchpad itself

Staging deb links default to Hardy for archive mirrors

Bug #176387 reported by Karl Tilbury
6
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Launchpad itself
Fix Released
High
Carlos Perelló Marín

Bug Description

Staging deb links default to Hardy for archive mirrors. This may be an issue for some users who will blindly cut and paste the deb mirror links straight into their apt-get source file instead of selecting the version they are running.

I think it would be better that the default was something like "Select Ubuntu Distribution" and a big angry warning was displayed giving details to users that adding the incorrect apt-get deb source will break their system and should only be done by experienced users.

And example can be found here:

https://staging.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+mirror/nic.funet.fi

Noticed this bug in build 5369

Francis J. Lacoste (flacoste)
Changed in launchpad:
importance: Undecided → High
status: New → Confirmed
Guilherme Salgado (salgado)
Changed in launchpad:
assignee: nobody → carlos
milestone: none → 1.2.1
Carlos Perelló Marín (carlos)
Changed in launchpad:
milestone: 1.2.1 → none
Guilherme Salgado (salgado)
Changed in launchpad:
milestone: none → 1.2.1
Revision history for this message
Guilherme Salgado (salgado) wrote :

I think it should default to the current stable release, in fact. Any objections to that?

Revision history for this message
James Troup (elmo) wrote : Re: [Bug 176387] Re: Staging deb links default to Hardy for archive mirrors

Guilherme Salgado <email address hidden> writes:

> I think it should default to the current stable release, in fact. Any
> objections to that?

There's not really a concept of 'current stable release' in Ubuntu.
Right now, 6.06, 6.10, 7.04 and 7.10 are all supported stable releases
and we know a non-trivial portion of our users are not on 7.10 which
is I suspect what you meant.

If you default to 7.10, and 6.06 users cut'n'paste a mirror entry for
7.10 into their sources.list, the package management system is going
to do Bad Things(tm) to their system.

(So, yes, I object.)

--
James

Revision history for this message
Guilherme Salgado (salgado) wrote : Re: [Bug 176387] Re: Staging deb links default to Hardy for archive mirrors

On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 02:06:16PM -0000, James Troup wrote:
> Guilherme Salgado <email address hidden> writes:
>
> > I think it should default to the current stable release, in fact. Any
> > objections to that?
>
> There's not really a concept of 'current stable release' in Ubuntu.
> Right now, 6.06, 6.10, 7.04 and 7.10 are all supported stable releases
> and we know a non-trivial portion of our users are not on 7.10 which
> is I suspect what you meant.
>

Yes, I meant the latest supported release.

> If you default to 7.10, and 6.06 users cut'n'paste a mirror entry for
> 7.10 into their sources.list, the package management system is going
> to do Bad Things(tm) to their system.
>
> (So, yes, I object.)
>

I guess we need to default to an "invalid" option, having the deb lines
displayed only when the users changes to one of the releases, then?

Revision history for this message
James Troup (elmo) wrote :

Guilherme Salgado <email address hidden> writes:

> I guess we need to default to an "invalid" option, having the deb lines
> displayed only when the users changes to one of the releases, then?

Or "Please choose a release", but yeah, that's what we had in mind.

Thanks.

--
James

Revision history for this message
Francis J. Lacoste (flacoste) wrote :

This is in review.

Changed in launchpad:
status: Confirmed → In Progress
Revision history for this message
Carlos Perelló Marín (carlos) wrote :

Fixed in RF 5512

Changed in launchpad:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
Carlos Perelló Marín (carlos)
Changed in launchpad:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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