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[intrepid] grey text says "Canonical provides updates" for packages in 3rd party archive (after the user added the repo gpg key and the meta-data is the same as the main archive)

Bug #289028 reported by Markus Korn
6
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
synaptic (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Unassigned
Ubuntu intrepid-updates
Intrepid
Invalid
Medium
Michael Vogt
Ubuntu intrepid-updates

Bug Description

Binary package hint: synaptic

There is a grey text at the bottom of a package description about Canonical/Community providing updates for this package. As you can see in the attached screenshot this text also appears for packages from a 3rd party repository. This looks like a legal issue to me and should in my opinion be (if confirmed) release critical.

Version:
ii synaptic 0.62.1ubuntu10 Graphical package manager

Markus

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Markus Korn (thekorn) wrote :
Michael Vogt (mvo)
Changed in synaptic:
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Triaged
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Steve Beattie (sbeattie) wrote :

I can confirm this behavior when adding the repositories from http://www.array.org (specifically "deb http://www.array.org/ubuntu intrepid eeepc") after having imported the gpg key. I note that I don't see this behavior for repositories on launchpad.

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Steve Beattie (sbeattie) wrote :

Milestoning for an SRU update.

Changed in synaptic:
milestone: none → intrepid-updates
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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

Speaking with Michael about this I've found out that it only happens with specific repositories and requires the meta-data to be signed so it seems like a corner case.

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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote :

Please note that this only happens if the gpg key is added. The reason is that the meta-data of that repository mimics exactly the one from archive.ubuntu.com.

I put this on my agenda for the jaunty release that it should better differentiate.

Martin Pitt (pitti)
Changed in synaptic:
assignee: nobody → mvo
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Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) wrote :

It is fixed in lucid but still an issue in intrepid and jaunty.

Changed in synaptic (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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Alex Valavanis (valavanisalex) wrote :

Intrepid Ibex reached end-of-life on 30 April 2010 so I am closing the report. The bug has been fixed in newer releases of Ubuntu.

Changed in synaptic (Ubuntu Intrepid):
status: Triaged → Invalid
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