[Bug 630175] Re: "Partial upgrade" is a misleading term

[Marius Kotsbak]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 734026 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/734026

** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 734026
   Confusing terminology when performing update/upgrade.

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Title:
  "Partial upgrade" is a misleading term

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

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: update-manager

  When update-manager wants to do a "Partial upgrade" rather than a
  normal upgrade, I'm always a little confused.  What it's really doing
  is a strictly more comprehensive upgrade than a normal upgrade.  It
  should be called "Full upgrade" or something like that.

  I think I understand where the name came from.  It's a partial upgrade
  between distribution versions?  Like, I'm on the development version
  and need to do an action that looks like a distribution-version
  upgrade, but a smaller one?

  But that's not update-manager's normal mode and I didn't initiate a
  distribution-version upgrade.  So when presented with this option, my
  first instict is to cancel the dialog and *not* do a partial upgrade,
  because I want a full upgrade.  But that results in only upgrading
  some of my packages (which I would argue is the actual partial
  upgrade).  It should flip the phrase around.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
  Package: update-manager 1:0.142.11
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-19.28-generic 2.6.35.3
  Uname: Linux 2.6.35-19-generic i686
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Sat Sep  4 08:18:15 2010
  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_US:en
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_GB.utf8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: update-manager

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