[Bug 1166230] Re: Updater lists many transitional dummy packages

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

But how do we tell that a package is a transitional dummy package,
exactly? For example, ttf-arphic-uka and libdb4.8 are both in the
"oldlibs" section. Both ship three files, or one if you don't count the
changelog and the copyright notice. ttf-arphic-ukai is labelled
"transitional dummy package", but libdb4.8 isn't.

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Title:
  Updater lists many transitional dummy packages

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

Bug description:
  The update-manager GUI lists a number of "Transitional dummy packages"
  available for update. There doesn't seem to be any additional
  information available about these packages through the UI. As a user I
  have no idea what I am supposed to do with them.

  I suggest grouping the "transitional dummy package" under the "Ubuntu
  base" section in update-manager, so that they are not displayed to the
  end user by default.

  To reproduce:
  1) Run Software Updater from the dash
  2) Look at the list of updates in the "Details of updates" list

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
  Package: update-manager 1:0.185
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-16.26-generic 3.8.5
  Uname: Linux 3.8.0-16-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu5
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Mon Apr  8 10:17:22 2013
  GsettingsChanges:
   
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2010-09-17 (934 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Beta amd64 (20100901.1)
  MarkForUpload: True
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: update-manager
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-01-25 (72 days ago)

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