[Bug 1205842] Re: qapt-deb-installer's Status and Details misleading and confusing

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On 2014-01-27T00:20:10+00:00 Francois Gouget wrote:

Here is how to reproduce this bug:
 * Download http://fgouget.free.fr/bugs/testrd.tar.bz2
   This is a small archive that contains a set of test, empty, Debian package files along with their source.
   (run ./build to rebuild them)

 * Assuming you have a 64-bit system, run the following command
   but ***** DO NOT START THE INSTALL! *****
   (if you have a 32-bit system, exchange i386 and amd64 everywhere)

      qapt-deb-installer testrd-python-any_1.0-1_i386.deb

The testrd-python-any package has a single 'python:any' dependency which
should already be satisfied given that the system already has
'python:amd64' installed. Still qapt-deb-installer displays the
following Status line:

      Status: Requires the installation of 173 additional packages

What this does not say is that it also wants to remove dozens of
packages among which critical ones such as python, unity, ubuntu-
desktop, gconf2, gnome-terminal, gksu, gdebi-core, gnome-packagekit,
software-center, etc.

The Details button will show a list of the impacted packages but that
list is not sorted alphabetically which makes it hard to figure out if a
given package is going to be removed.

This issue can be reproduced with the python-gtk2 test packages.

So to summarize:
 * The Status should warn about package removal.
 * The Details list should sort the package names alphabetically.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: qapt-deb-installer 2.0.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-19.29-generic 3.8.8
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-19-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Jul 24 15:55:39 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-04-29 (86 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: qapt
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

Reproducible: Always

Reply at:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qapt/+bug/1205842/comments/3


** Changed in: qapt
       Status: Unknown => New

** Changed in: qapt
   Importance: Unknown => Medium

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