** Attachment added: "debdiff"
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/52741124/debdiff
** Description changed:
Binary package hint: packagekit
Because of trying to access wrong gobject properties in both the backend
AND pkcon invalid values on name/summary and state of available distro
upgrades are returned. This affects pkcon as well as KPackageKit.
This essentially means that every Kubuntu user will eventually run into
KPackageKit reporting an available distribution and offers "Upgrade to".
Quite literal only "Upgrade to" since the name is nil nothing will show
up which is completely confusing.
Reproduce the issue:
1) Apply the attached patch metarelease.patch with: sudo patch -p0 <
metarelease.patch
2) Edit /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades to Prompt=devel
3) Ensure that /usr/lib/update-manager/check-new-release yiels appropriate
output
4) KPackageKit's update UI and pkcon get-distro-upgrades yield invalid values
but detect the presence of a distro upgrade
Check the fix:
1-3 as above
4) as above but this time with appropriate output
The change set at hand does not have any regression potential since the
affected gobject properties do not exist at all and in the "broken"
version glib correctly reports this as warning (which can be observed in
pkcon).
+
+ Thanks go to Daniel Nicoletti for helping with tracking down the issue.
** Also affects: packagekit (Ubuntu Lucid)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Changed in: packagekit (Ubuntu Lucid)
Assignee: (unassigned) => Harald Sitter (apachelogger)
** Changed in: packagekit (Ubuntu Lucid)
Importance: Undecided => Medium
** Changed in: packagekit (Ubuntu Lucid)
Status: New => In Progress
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invalid values for distro upgrades
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/611760
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