Update manager should read "The package information was just updated" in 15 minute intervals for the first hour after an update.

This is almost exactly how it works by default now. After an update it will read "The package information was just updated" or something very similar to that. After the first hour it reads an hourly time until it reaches 24 hours. Then it reverts to "days". You are saying that it should read out "time since last update" in 15 minute intervals?

For example: "Your system was updated 3 days 14 hours and 30 minutes ago"? Is that what you are looking for?

No, pardon me if I was unclear. What I mean is that the current behaviour seems to be that if I check for updates and there are none, the Update manager will read "Your system is up to date. The package information was updated less than one hour ago."

I'm proposing that as long as it's less than one hour ago that the package information was updated, the message should update at 15-minute intervals, with the first - that is, when it was less than 15 minutes ago that the check occurred - reading "Your system is up to date. The package information was just updated." When it's more than one hour ago, the current behaviour is indeed very appropriate.

I'm not getting the "...just updated" as of right now, but I may be missing something.

I couldn't find the "...just updated" behaviour in the current branch, so I patched the code with it. I'm no Python expert, but I tested it successfully and it should make it a little less work to implement - should this bug be accepted, naturally.

Sorry, I'm still quite the newbie to the whole packaging business and bzr, but I think I got it right with this attachment. This is a replacement for the patch in the last comment, and should be how it's supposed to look and I intended it to.

Ok great. Thanks for reporting this. I am going to see if I can get it "Wishlist" status as soon as possible. Marking "confirmed" as well.

This bug was fixed in the package update-manager - 1:0.152.8

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update-manager (1:0.152.8) oneiric; urgency=low

  [ Robert Roth ]
  * Ordered the packages alphabetically on the dist-upgrade
    confirmation dialog. (LP: #764831)
  * Update last updated text every 15 minutes in the first hour
    after update (LP: #747336). Thanks to Fredrik Ekelund.

  [ Michael Vogt ]
  * UpdateManager/UpdateManager.py, data/glade/UpdateManager.ui:
    - remove old manual text wrap code that is now superseeded by
      gtk3 (LP: #812949)
  * data/glade/UpdateManager.ui:
    - fix the xalign and expand properties of the various alert
      labels
 -- Michael Vogt <email address hidden> Wed, 27 Jul 2011 10:42:31 +0200