[Bug 734026] Re: Confusing terminology when performing update/upgrade.

[Matthew Linscott]

** Changed in: update-manager (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: Matthew Linscott (matt-linscott) => (unassigned)

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Title:
  Confusing terminology when performing update/upgrade.

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

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: update-manager

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  Summary:  For the benefit of newer users, use the word "Update" to update/upgrade already installed packages.  Use "Upgrade" to perform a system upgrade to the next Ubuntu release.
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  Ubuntu 10.04 offers UPDATES which are changes within 10.04, and
  distribution UPGRADES, which would be the conversion of 10.04 to
  10.10, for example.   However, due to a confusion of terminology,
  10.04 is offering UPGRADES which are in fact UPDATES.  I have just run
  update-manager on my wife's machine to perform an UPDATE.  However, it
  was described by the software as an UPGRADE. It was therefore unclear
  whether it was improving 10.04 or converting 10.04 to 10.10.  After
  the UPDATE/ UPGRADE, 10.04 was still on the machine (fortunately, as
  this is what I wanted), so it was in fact an UPDATE.

  On the assumption that this issue remains in future versions, please
  clarify in the code the use of the terms, and restrict the term
  UPGRADE to transitions between version numbers, and use UPDATES for
  within a version number.  Then non-geek users that really only want
  Ubuntu to just work, and don't want to launch major system upgrades by
  mistake when they would prefer to stay with the 10.04 LTS version,
  with all the implications for production usage, won't be concerned or
  confused.

  thanks.

  ProblemType: BugDistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
  Package: update-manager 1:0.134.11
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-30.59-generic 2.6.32.29+drm33.13
  Uname: Linux 2.6.32-30-generic i686
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Sat Mar 12 20:47:17 2011InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=en_GB.utf8
   SHELL=/bin/bashSourcePackage: update-manager

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