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update-manager package

Remove obsolete packages states "will take many hours"

Bug #513908 reported by Paul Sladen
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
update-manager (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
Robert Roth

Bug Description

Binary package hint: update-manager

Following an upgrade to the latest available packages, update-manager will offer to "remove obsolete packages". The user is presented with an extra explanatory note that "fetching and installing the upgrade can take several hours".

It is my understanding that if all this part of the process is going to do is to auto-remove packages, then it will not require any downloading and is unlikely to take a long period of time.

Ideally the messages for this part of the process could be adjusted to be less misleading.

Related branches

lp:~evfool/update-manager/distupgradefixes
Michael Vogt (community): Approve
Diff: 67 lines (+18/-7)
2 files modified
DistUpgrade/DistUpgrade.ui (+3/-3)
DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeView.py (+15/-4)
lp:update-manager
lp:ubuntu/precise/update-manager
Launchpad Janitor (janitor)
Changed in update-manager (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
Robert Roth (evfool) wrote :

There is a screenshot of the issue (using update-manager-kde) in a duplicate bug, see https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/650490/+attachment/1649914/+files/screenshot79.png
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Changed in update-manager (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Low
Robert Roth (evfool)
Changed in update-manager (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → In Progress
assignee: nobody → Robert Roth (evfool)
Robert Roth (evfool)
Changed in update-manager (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package update-manager - 1:0.156.3

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update-manager (1:0.156.3) precise; urgency=low

  [ Jean-Baptiste Lallement ]
  * lp:~jibel/update-manager/AutoUpgradeTester-desktoptests:
    New tests for Ubuntu Desktop LTS upgrade:
    * autologin check
    * user settings check: wallpaper, theme, keyboard layout, custom
      launchers (desktop and panel)
  * lp:~jibel/update-manager/AutoUpgradeTester-portlocking:
    - automatically allocate free ssh/vnc ports

  [ Colin Watson ]
  * Clean up a few pyflakes warnings.
  * DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeMain.py
    - Make sure main.log is actually created.
  * DistUpgrade/removal_blacklist.cfg:
    - Only blacklist unity, not all packages whose names start with unity.

  [ Robert Roth ]
  * lp:~evfool/update-manager/lp351665:
    - Use ngettext to humanize size (LP: #351665)
  * lp:~evfool/update-manager/distupgradefixes:
    - DistUpgrade changes dialog text fixes
      (LP: #348517, LP: #513908)
    - Fix resize on changes dialog to stretch the details
      (LP: #294293)

  [ Michael Vogt ]
  * add humanize_size() test
  * pyflakes fixes
  * tests/test_pyflakes.py:
    - always pyflakes as part of the pre-build process to ensure
      we are clean
  * disable apply_dselect_upgrades()
 -- Michael Vogt <email address hidden> Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:56:29 +0100

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