[Bug 268843] Re: UpdateManager.Core.MetaRelease

[Walter Garcia-Fontes]

Sorry that your suggestion got unattended for a long time. If this is
still an issue with the latests versions of update-manager please feel
free to mark the status of the but to "new" again.

** Changed in: update-manager-core (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

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Title:
  UpdateManager.Core.MetaRelease

Status in “update-manager-core” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  if the download fails, nothing is logged or indicated, and this leads to
  confusing problems where update-manager 'fails to detect' an update.

  Specifically, I was seeing a <urlopen error (-2, 'name or service not
  known')>, but I had to modify the try: except: clause to find this out.

  As a suggestion, I suggest allowing the error to be stored on an
  attribute, so scripts like do-release-update can show it to the user
  (and perhaps update-manager could show a [/!\ cannot check for
  updates]).

   affects ubuntu/update-manager-core

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