[Bug 2043425] Re: Details pane against unavailable Pro updates is misleading

[Sebastien Bacher]

Indeed the UI there is confusing. When the system is not attached to
Ubuntu Pro the updates are unknown to apt. We build the UI by getting a
list of binaries from 'pro security-status' but we didn't include extra
logic to adapt the 'details' section. The 'available' version comes from
apt and in this case there is no update.

We could probably also get the version for the pro command to fix the
'available version' information but I'm unsure if we have a way to have
access to the changelog to display actual content.

@Design, what would we recommend doing? Should we just fix the version
even without changelog description? Hide the section? Add some text
explaining how the Pro updates are different?

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Title:
  Details pane against unavailable Pro updates is misleading

Status in update-manager package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  If Pro is not enabled, then the details pane against a Pro update
  misleads the user into believing that there is no update available.

  Example of someone being misled:
  https://inteltechniques.com/blog/2023/11/12/ubuntu-pro-shenanigans/

  Expected results: either no details presented, or the actual details
  of the potential Pro update presented

  Actual results: a message that implies that there is no update
  available for this package, Pro or not.

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