[Bug 764836] Re: "Do you want to start the upgrade?" gives 56 K modem estimate

[Michael Jørgensen]

Ten years have passed ...

I think the prevalence of dial-up modems has decreased to almost non-
existence by now. Please rephrase the text in the dialog.

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Title:
  "Do you want to start the upgrade?" gives 56 K modem estimate

Status in update-manager package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  1. Install the previous version of Ubuntu.
  2. Launch Update Manager or Software Updater.
  3. Advance to the "Do you want to start the upgrade?" step.

  What you see: Something like "You have to download a total of 1,102M.
  This download will take about 2 hours 20 minutes with a 1Mbit DSL
  connection and about 1 day 18 hours with a 56k modem."

  It's likely that some people still use Ubuntu on dial-up, but giving
  an estimate this way makes Ubuntu look old. We should find a more
  sensible way to present the estimate, for example, showing the 56k
  version only if you *do* have a 56k connection.

  <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReleaseUpgrades#ready>: "The time should be
  calculated based on how long the package indexes took to download..."

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