[Desktop-packages] [Bug 578045] Re: Upgrading packaged Ubuntu application unreasonably involves upgrading entire OS

2013-11-25 Thread Rodney Dawes
This has nothing to do with software-center itself. The only way you are going to make this better is to get the upstreams to do the requisite packaging work and make the packages available as updates through software-center by publishing them via the web site for managing one's applications

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 578045] Re: Upgrading packaged Ubuntu application unreasonably involves upgrading entire OS

2013-09-25 Thread Nick Thiemann
** Changed in: software-center (Ubuntu) Assignee: Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) = Nick Thiemann (thiemann-nick) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to software-center in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/578045 Title:

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 578045] Re: Upgrading packaged Ubuntu application unreasonably involves upgrading entire OS

2013-09-25 Thread Adolfo Jayme Barrientos
** Changed in: software-center (Ubuntu) Assignee: Nick Thiemann (thiemann-nick) = Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to software-center in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/578045 Title:

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 578045] Re: Upgrading packaged Ubuntu application unreasonably involves upgrading entire OS

2012-09-05 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
** Description changed: It is easier to upgrade to the newest stable versions of most applications -- even open source applications -- on a proprietary operating system than it is on Ubuntu. Two examples: 1. Wait for a new version of LibreOffice to be released. What happens:

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 578045] Re: Upgrading packaged Ubuntu application unreasonably involves upgrading entire OS

2012-05-21 Thread Michael Vogt
** Tags removed: ca-escalated -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to software-center in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/578045 Title: Upgrading packaged Ubuntu application unreasonably involves upgrading entire OS

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 578045] Re: Upgrading packaged Ubuntu application unreasonably involves upgrading entire OS

2012-04-17 Thread Dave Morley
** Tags added: ca-escalate ** Tags removed: ca-escalate ** Tags added: ca-escalated -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to software-center in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/578045 Title: Upgrading packaged Ubuntu

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 578045] Re: Upgrading packaged Ubuntu application unreasonably involves upgrading entire OS

2012-02-06 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
** Changed in: software-center (Ubuntu) Status: Fix Committed = In Progress -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to software-center in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/578045 Title: Upgrading packaged Ubuntu

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 578045] Re: Upgrading packaged Ubuntu application unreasonably involves upgrading entire OS

2012-01-30 Thread Bjørn Erik Bismo
** Changed in: software-center (Ubuntu) Status: In Progress = Fix Committed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to software-center in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/578045 Title: Upgrading packaged Ubuntu

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 578045] Re: Upgrading packaged Ubuntu application unreasonably involves upgrading entire OS

2011-09-29 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
** Description changed: - It's hard to imagine that this could be true, but it is easier to - upgrade to the newest stable versions of popular free and open source - software (referred to from here on as FOSS) in proprietary operating - systems, than it is to do so on Ubuntu. + It is easier to