[Bug 145764] Re: doesn't state why updates are necessary

[Robert Roth]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 89284 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/89284

I'm marking this bug as a duplicate of bug #89284, as grouping updates by importance (security fixes, recommended updates, etc) is already implemented, as Sebastian has mentioned in comment 1, and the other part of this (same changelog/description for many updates) would be solved if updates would be grouped by their source package or by the application they do belong to, which is exactly what is requested in bug #89284.
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** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 89284
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Title:
  doesn't state why updates are necessary

Status in “update-manager” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: update-manager

  The update manager doesn't state why updates are necessary.  It just
  lists a bunch of cryptic package names with some blurb about what the
  package is for (which itself is usually cryptic, since you often see
  5-6 packages for a single application or component of the desktop, and
  all the package descriptions just say the same thing).

  The update manager should at the very least state why updates are
  available (are they security updates?  bug fixes?  new features?  are
  they critical?).

  It would also be swell if the update manager would group related
  packages together (with an expander to see all of the packages for the
  silly pedantic people who have the time to waste) so instead of seeing
  5 packages about Abiword updates, the user just sees that there is an
  update to Abiword (as an example).  The fact that Abiword is delivered
  as multiple packages is an internal implementation detail of the
  Debian packaging policy that is completely irrelevant to users (and
  most developers) and it's just useless noise.  I imagine that extra
  meta-data might be necessary in packages to pull that part off
  correctly.

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