hardy-updates for universe not enabled in some cases?

[Michael Vogt]

On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 01:02:04PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 06:32:03PM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote:
> > Seen this at least in two bug reports (e.g. 289858), that universe is
> > enabled in hardy, but not hardy-updates for universe. Other updates
> > are enabled. Is this a problem with some tool, or just a user
> > misconfiguration? If it's the latter it might be good to add some
> > consistency checks.
> 
> It looks like that user upgraded from Ubuntu 7.04 or earlier. The
> installer mistakenly didn't add sources.list lines for universe and
> multiverse -updates before that:
> 
> apt-setup (1:0.21ubuntu2) gutsy; urgency=low
> 
>   * If either restricted or multiverse is enabled, add commented-out lines
>     for the commercial component (LP: #118002).
>   * Add -updates for universe and multiverse, if enabled.
> 
>  -- Colin Watson <cjwatson at ubuntu.com>  Thu, 02 Aug 2007 11:20:05 +0100
> 
> Michael/Lars, perhaps this is something that update-manager and
> system-cleaner should check for?

Sure, I can add code for this. So far update-manager does relatively
little fiddling with the sources.list (beside the fiddling it needs to
do). The reason is that its hard to tell if the user disabled some
bits deliberately or not. 

But I think if I can add a check that enables -updates for all
components if it is enabled for at least one component. 

Cheers,
 Michael