Ubuntu
update-manager package

  1. Bug #189406
  2. Comment #16

Comment 16 for bug 189406

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Pizuz (florian-fahr) wrote : Re: [Hardy] Update Manager doesn't display package versions anymore

Interesting idea, indeed. Novice users won't probably know much about the packages being upgraded, anyway.

However, let me humbly disagree with you on one aspect: Synaptic is a tool for installing packages. As an "advanced" user it would be too much of a hassle to open it everytime I want to install a hundred and thirty updates. Just to see which version has been updated to which. Update Manager did a very good job in displaying sufficient information for people like myself who would like to see what exactly was going to happen.

If you don't wanna have novice users see all this, because they could get confused, please dumb the entire interface down and make the old and "advanced" appearance optional. Yes, optional. Please.

Another solution would be making Update Manager at least indicate a new upstream release.