[Bug 763766] Re: WARNING: Failed to read mirror file

[JohnWashington]

To the average person, 'warning' means they need to be cautious and
check something, but this message doesn't give any indication of how to
do that.

Saying "this isn't a  bug" is the same as saying one has no
understanding of how inexperienced users in the real world interpret
warning messages.  If this message is just casual information for those
in the know, it should be labelled in some non-threatening non-worrying
way, e.g. 'Information'.

It IS a bug.  It's a usability bug.

Sorry if I come over a bit too passionate about this, but I get to see
non-geek users of Ubuntu, and this kind of thing scares the BeJeez out
of some of them.

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Title:
  WARNING: Failed to read mirror file

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

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: update-manager

  upgraded to latest maverick today ... and then directly update-manager
  -d to natty I see on the terminal:

  asac at tinya:~$ sudo update-manager -d
  extracting 'natty.tar.gz'
  authenticate 'natty.tar.gz' against 'natty.tar.gz.gpg'
  WARNING: Failed to read mirror file

  this does not seem to break things; at least i am now at the dialog
  that asks me: "Do you want to start the upgrade now?"

  not sure if thats a problem; guess its because natty isn't released
  yet. Feel free to invalidate. If you need more information ping me on
  IRC or asac at linaro.org. Thanks!

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