Public bug reported:
Software updater tells me it requires installation of untrusted
packages. It says, "This requires installing packages from untrusted
sources."
But it does not tell me what packages are untrusted. It does not tell me
what untrusted sources it is required to retrieve packages from. And it
does not tell me why these packages and sources are untrusted. It
neither offers any way of learning this information.
It also denies me any choice in the matter. The warning dialogue has two
actions. One is <settings>, which is clearly useful for anyone who
already knows the answers to the unanswered questions raised above. The
other is <OK>, an invitation to go ahead and install the anonymous
untrusted packages from the anonymous untrusted sources. There is no
option to decline the installation of these packages.
Being a user of but little knowledge, it just so happens that the little
knowledge I have tells me not to install anonymous untrusted packages
from untrusted sources. It's the sort of thing parents tell their
children nowadays after saying they shouldn't talk to strangers.
So I do the only thing I can, short of spending a week of nights and
weeks more nights to learn what it is all about. (If only I had so much
time). I close <X> the window and hope it goes away. But it has come
back again. I think it might keep coming back. What if it's an important
piece of software? What if my operating system fails because I won't let
it install anonymous untrusted packages from untrusted sources? And what
oh! of the tragic irony if I end up getting malicious anonymous
untrusted packages from untrusted sources getting in through a breach in
my security left by my refusal to install anonymous untrusted packages
from untrusted sources?
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: update-manager 1:0.186.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-27.40-generic 3.8.13.4
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-27-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8.3
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Aug 17 12:18:55 2013
GsettingsChanges:
b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'first-run' b'false'
b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'launch-time' b'1376737045'
b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'show-details' b'true'
b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'window-height' b'468'
b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'window-width' b'680'
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-11-28 (261 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.1)
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: update-manager
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-05-14 (94 days ago)
** Affects: update-manager (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug raring
** Information type changed from Private Security to Public
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