[Bug 1032104] Re: "The package is of bad quality" error message is bad

[Sebastian Heinlein]

Hopefully some first answers:

(a) If you click on a package s-c is opened to install it. the second
dialog is just an error message that the installation tiggered. The
error only appears if you install a package file - it will never appear
if installing from a repository.

(d) The worst kind of problems: unpredictable problems :) And very
technical ones. The quality problems are violations of the Ubuntu/Debian
packaging policy. The user could see failures to install or update
software or strange behavior of applications and crashes.

(g) "Isn't allowed" isn't true anymore. That is correct.

Thanks for your input!

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Title:
  "The package is of bad quality" error message is bad

Status in “aptdaemon” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  As shown in
  <https://launchpadlibrarian.net/110649564/Screenshot%20from%202012-07-20%2015%3A53%3A47.png>,
  when double-clicking some packages Ubuntu Software Center opens with
  an error message overlaid:

      The package is of bad quality

      The installation of a package that violates quality standards
  isn't allowed. This could cause serious problems on your computer.
  Please contact the person or organization who provided this package
  file and include the details beneath.

  > Details

                                             ( OK ) ( Ignore and install
  )

  Many things can be fixed here.

  a. Why are two windows being presented here (the background one
  already containing the usual .deb warning) rather than one? Might this
  error also appear when installing updates? If so, maybe the USC window
  shouldn't open at all, just the error alert. And if not, probably the
  error should be embedded into the software item screen instead.

  b. The primary text isn't a complete sentence.

  c. "Violates quality standards" sounds needlessly violent.

  d. "Serious problems on your computer"? What kind of problems? It
  could be more specific.

  e. "The person or organization? Unless the Maintainer field is
  unreadable, it knows who that person or organization is, and should
  say so.

  f. The secondary text refers to "the details beneath" (beneath what?),
  but by default no details are shown.

  g. If installation "isn't allowed", why am I being given the option to
  ignore and install? Make up your mind.

  h. If it does make sense to have the option to install, it should be
  "Ignore and Install", not "Ignore and install".

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  Next steps:
  * Find answers to the questions in (a), (d), and (g).
  * Redesign the error presentation.

  Not to be confused with bug 1020742, where the error message fails to
  contain any details, or bug 1027092, where the message is possibly
  appearing for packages where it shouldn't.

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