[Bug 1222618] [NEW] Additional Driver choices don't always correspond correctly to installation actions

[Derek Monner]

Public bug reported:

TL;DR: Double-check the indexing of radio buttons in the Additional
Drivers dialog and how they correspond to installation actions, because
there's something fishy going on.

I have a Radeon HD 6870, and on a fresh 13.04 install I wanted to
install proprietary drivers for it. Found the "Additional Drivers" tab
and had three choices which were, in order: xserver-xorg-video-ati,
fglrx-updates, and fglrx. I selected fglrx-updates, hit "Apply Changes",
and afterward confirmed with apt that it was installed. I rebooted, and
all was fine.

Later the same day, I wanted to revert to xserver-xorg-video-ati. I go
into the dialog, select it, Apply Changes, and am decidedly unhappy to
learn from apt that now fglrx-updates has been removed and replaced with
fglrx instead of xserver-xorg-video-ati. The dialog still assured me
that this was not the case. Seeing as fglrx was not installed, I told
the dialog to install it. Afterwards, apt said fglrx-updates was
installed again! So I told the dialog to install fglrx-updates, and
finally both versions of fglrx are uninstalled and replaced by xserver-
xorg-video-ati. At this point, the Additional Drivers dialog still happy
thinks that fglrx-updates is installed.

After a reboot, Additional Drivers agrees with apt that xserver-xorg-
video-ati is what is installed.

** Affects: software-properties (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  Additional Driver choices don't always correspond correctly to
  installation actions

Status in “software-properties” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  TL;DR: Double-check the indexing of radio buttons in the Additional
  Drivers dialog and how they correspond to installation actions,
  because there's something fishy going on.

  I have a Radeon HD 6870, and on a fresh 13.04 install I wanted to
  install proprietary drivers for it. Found the "Additional Drivers" tab
  and had three choices which were, in order: xserver-xorg-video-ati,
  fglrx-updates, and fglrx. I selected fglrx-updates, hit "Apply
  Changes", and afterward confirmed with apt that it was installed. I
  rebooted, and all was fine.

  Later the same day, I wanted to revert to xserver-xorg-video-ati. I go
  into the dialog, select it, Apply Changes, and am decidedly unhappy to
  learn from apt that now fglrx-updates has been removed and replaced
  with fglrx instead of xserver-xorg-video-ati. The dialog still assured
  me that this was not the case. Seeing as fglrx was not installed, I
  told the dialog to install it. Afterwards, apt said fglrx-updates was
  installed again! So I told the dialog to install fglrx-updates, and
  finally both versions of fglrx are uninstalled and replaced by
  xserver-xorg-video-ati. At this point, the Additional Drivers dialog
  still happy thinks that fglrx-updates is installed.

  After a reboot, Additional Drivers agrees with apt that xserver-xorg-
  video-ati is what is installed.

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