** Changed in: aptdaemon
Status: In Progress => Confirmed
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/635101
Title:
Broken apt cache error message is out of date
Status in Aptdaemon:
Confirmed
Status in “software-center” package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
Ubuntu Software Center 2.1.18, Ubuntu Maverick
Ubuntu Software Center 3.0.5, Ubuntu 10.10
Based on test case sc-017
<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareCenter#broken>:
1. sudo apt-get install 4g8 && sudo dpkg --force-depends -r libnet1
2. Launch Ubuntu Software Center.
(When finished testing, reset if necessary with "sudo apt-get remove
4g8 libnet1".)
What happens:
2. An alert appears, "Items cannot be installed or removed until the package
catalog is repaired. Do you want to repair it now?" "Once Update Manager has
finished the repairs, you can close it and return to the store."
What should happen:
2. USC should launch as normal, but there should be a /!\ icon next to
“Installed Software”. Clicking the icon should produce a PolicyKit alert: "Some
software is not installed correctly, and may not run properly. You need to
authenticate to repair the installation."
That text could be in a separate alert from the authentication alert,
but that would result in two alerts in a row, which is unpleasant.
So, unless there is a good reason that you would *not* want to fix the
apt cache (and therefore a reason we shouldn't take advantage of
cached PolicyKit privileges to do it), the alert that presents that
message should be the actual PolicyKit alert. That way we get one
alert rather than two.
That in turn means that there would need to be a specific aptdaemon
PolicyKit privilege for this task.
Fixing this bug would fix bug 927426 too.
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