On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 06:17:09PM +0200, Bjoern Michaelsen wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 03:21:36PM +0100, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > > Oh dear. I've reported that as a bug. <http://launchpad.net/bugs/1320174> > > [...] > > Frequency is an absolute count. (Perhaps we should call it "Count" > > instead?) > > thanks for filing the bug. I should have done that myself. My only lame excuse > for not doing that is, given the other behaviour I saw, I wasnt sure if I > possibly completely misinterpreted the thing. As for relabeling from frequency > to count, Id support that, its a lot less confusing. > > > That's a shame. The database server is unreliable, but I don't > > remember a case where it failed *and* the Web site didn't communicate > > this with an error message. > > I probably just see more of those as LibreOffice[1] is a huge package, thus I > trigger more demanding queries ... > > > Sure. And if the Software Updater developers think otherwise, you > > should get in a room together until you agree on a solution. Don't > > just shrug and blame each other from a distance. :-) > > Im not just shrugging, I have a few ideas on how to solve that (and a few > other > things) -- but I dont think we should avoid building local workarounds, esp. > when we might reconsider the way we pack and deploy software in the next years > anyway ... ;) > > Ill try to convey some of my lunatic ideas on the next sprint and check for > feedback and how much they survive the scrutiny of my fellow engineers. > > > And specifically, we have no evidence that it's a problem for you. > > Well, there is still the mystery on why this particular issue wasnt too high > ranked on 13.10, but is so on 14.04, with the bug unlikely having changed. No > need to get to deep into this for just one issue (maybe e.g. audience of LTSes > does use LibreOffice a lot more), but would be interesting if there are more > cases like that.
As Matthew mentioned earlier there is a database migration that is still pending and it is likely that this issue would show more 13.10 occurrences when that migration is complete. -- Brian Murray
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