[Bug 398052] Re: update manager fails to group packages

[Robert Roth]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 89284 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/89284

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** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 89284
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Title:
  update manager fails to group packages

Status in One Hundred Paper Cuts:
  Invalid
Status in “update-manager” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  The Update Manager doesn't group packages together that (1) would all
  be updated together and (2) all have the same descriptive changes.

  For example, today we got a set of 11 updates, to packages icedtea-6
  -jre-cacao, icedtea6-plugin, libxcb-render0, libxcb-shape0, libxcb-
  shm0, libxcb-xv0, libxcb1, openjdk-6-jre, openjdk-6-jre-headless, and
  openjdk-6-jre-lib. As far as I can see, having to click on each one
  one-at-a-time to see the description of update, this is _two_ updates.

  Almost everyone will update all these packages or none of them, rather
  than go to that effort. I'm sure some developer gearhead out there
  might install them individually, or have some obscure reason he _must_
  have this feature, but if there's any hope of fixing "bug 1," the
  current interface is too complicated and takes too long to understand
  the nature of the updates.

  Ideally, the description of the update would give me a clue about the
  importance or reason for the update in some language more
  understandable than "apply missing pulseaudio bounds checking patch to
  1.4.1," just for example, so that I could decide whether I should chew
  up 28.7 MB of bandwidth, but I'll settle for merely grouping the
  similar package updates together.

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