Public bug reported:
The UI around "partial upgrades" is a bit inconsistent at best, but I
thought I had worked it out. I mean, if you say "close" when it prompts
you for a "partial upgrade" you can still install all the packages the
update-manager doesn't grey out in the listing, which is a sort of
partial upgrade of its own, but that's neither here nor there.
What the "partial upgrade" dialog seems to do is let me decide if I want
to uninstall packages to make the upgrade work. Previously I was able
to view details and see which packages were prompted for removal. This
way I could back out if it were, say, bash, but charge ahead if it was
something like ttf-obscure-fonts-transitional-package-2007.
This morning I selected partial upgrade, and the details pane just told
me that it wanted to uninstall 2 packages, but wouldn't tell me *which*
packages. I ended up resorting to aptitude to work this out.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: update-manager 1:0.156.9
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-19.30-generic 3.2.11
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-19-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.94.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Mar 22 08:16:04 2012
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
GsettingsChanges:
com.ubuntu.update-manager first-run false
com.ubuntu.update-manager launch-time 1332403243
com.ubuntu.update-manager window-height 610
com.ubuntu.update-manager window-width 921
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm
LC_COLLATE=C
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: update-manager
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-03-22 (0 days ago)
** Affects: update-manager (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug precise
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partial upgrades no longer let me see which packages are being removed
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