[Bug 1119247] Re: "This requires installing packages from unauthenticated sources" warning not useful

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Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

** Changed in: update-manager (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Confirmed

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Title:
  "This requires installing packages from unauthenticated sources"
  warning not useful

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

Bug description:
  My machine was previously 12.10 and I updated to raring. On 12.10 I
  had Variety (wallpaper changer) installed. I wanted to run latest
  Variety on my raring machine. Unfortunately they haven't built a
  package for raring so I did what many people do, and use the quantal
  package. I did this by manually adding the "deb http://... " line to
  my sources. I can't use add-apt-repository in this case because that
  will try to add a "raring" line to my sources.

  I opened update manager to update and it found the latest variety and
  offered me the option of installing it. I clicked the install button
  and after a bit of work it popped up a dialog "This requires
  installing packages from unauthenticated sources" with only the option
  of "Ok" and "Settings" available.

  Note that if I'd done an update via "apt-get upgrade" on the command
  line it would issue a "WARNING" that this was untrusted, but would
  still allow me to update it. So the message in update manager is
  somewhat unhelpful as it doesn't tell me how I can fix the issue to
  get the package I want to be installed.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
  Package: update-manager 1:0.181
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-5.10-generic 3.8.0-rc6
  Uname: Linux 3.8.0-5-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.8-0ubuntu4
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Fri Feb  8 09:56:49 2013
  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
  GsettingsChanges:
   b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'first-run' b'false'
   b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'launch-time' b'1360316531'
   b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'show-details' b'true'
   b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'window-height' b'506'
   b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'window-width' b'784'
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-01-02 (402 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha amd64 (20120102)
  MarkForUpload: True
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: update-manager
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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