14.04 LTS: inaccurate reports of packages available at login

[Nils Kassube]

Nikhil Nair wrote:
> I switched from Ubuntu server 12.04 LTS to 14.04 LTS fairly recently. 
> One very odd change in behaviour I've noticed is that, when the
> number of packages available for upgrade (and the number which are
> security upgrades) are reported at login time, they're often quite
> outdated.  This wasn't the case under 12.04 LTS.

> I presume some sort of caching was done to save too-frequent checks of
> the database, or, perhaps, to speed up the login process.  However,
> this definitely looks like a bug to me!

AIUI, the cache update happens once a day by a cron job.

> What's the way forward - will someone pick it up from here, or do I
> need to lodge a bug report?  If the latter, how does that work - if I
> have to associate the report with a particular package, which package
> would I choose here?  (Sorry, not familiar with the Ubuntu bug
> reporting system; any pointers to the appropriate documentation would
> be appreciated.)

You can't expect that someone would pick it up here because this list is 
for users supporting other users. You would file a bug report at 
launchpad. See <https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs> for the 
details.


Nils