[Bug 1024909] Re: Quantal: Regression: Software-Updater forces user to check for updates

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

As for #2, the updates window absolutely should display despite missed
indices, because a PPA long since deleted shouldn't stop one of my
colleagues from receiving security updates for several months. Ahem. :-)
I guess we should have some kind of persistent warning for that, but
just displaying all other updates would be an improvement for now.

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Title:
  Quantal: Regression: Software-Updater forces user to check for updates

Status in “update-manager” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  I understand the reason for the new behavior to fix bug 289404 and
  I've read https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareUpdates - I can live with
  the software-updater trying to update before starting, but currently

  1. A click on the Cancel button during the software updater's automatic starts check for updates closes the Software Updater completely instead of starting it.
  (maybe the user had just run an update or just wants to check something in the software updater, but now he is forced to wait until all updates have finished - that feels like a big regression)

  <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareUpdates#check-interactive>: "If you
  stop the check, the progress window should morph into an info alert
  with the title 'Software Updater' and primary text 'You stopped the
  check for updates.'..."

  2. If any of the repository information fails to download the users only choice is to again close the window (see attached screenshot), which then closes the software-updater instead of opening it and ignoring those failed downloads
  (Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.)

  This means currently there is no way of opening the software-updater,
  without finishing a successful update run before.

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