[Bug 1172831] [NEW] Lack of command line feedback

[Donjan Rodic]

Public bug reported:

Rationale:
After upgrading from 12.10 to 13.04, my ~15 PPAs have been disabled. Reenabling them (they are automatically set to target 'raring') and launching udate-manager, it simply says "Failed to download repository information", "Check your internet connection.". There is no indication of what is going wrong, and the next intuitive idea (~$ gksudo update-manager) prints nothing while giving the same error popup.

A quick '~$ aptitude update' reveals that one of the PPAs simply doesn't
have a 'raring' target.

Proposal:
update-manager should print it's current activities to stdout when invoked from the command line. Sure, one can/should implement error popups for every which possibility, but command line output is a fairly essential fallback.

** Affects: update-manager (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  Lack of command line feedback

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

Bug description:
  Rationale:
  After upgrading from 12.10 to 13.04, my ~15 PPAs have been disabled. Reenabling them (they are automatically set to target 'raring') and launching udate-manager, it simply says "Failed to download repository information", "Check your internet connection.". There is no indication of what is going wrong, and the next intuitive idea (~$ gksudo update-manager) prints nothing while giving the same error popup.

  A quick '~$ aptitude update' reveals that one of the PPAs simply
  doesn't have a 'raring' target.

  Proposal:
  update-manager should print it's current activities to stdout when invoked from the command line. Sure, one can/should implement error popups for every which possibility, but command line output is a fairly essential fallback.

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