Bug 298028

Summary:	autoupdater: do not push new applications as updates
Product:	[Applications] apper	Reporter:	Thomas Goettlicher <tgoettlicher>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Daniel Nicoletti <dantti12>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=752666
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Description Thomas Goettlicher 2012-04-13 08:27:02 UTC

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/7.0.1
Build Identifier: 

autoupdater: do not push new applications as updates

AU as the name says, is for updates. Yet, I noticed it tries to install
completely new software (something for monitor network in Python) -- such thing
should not happen.

AU is not advertisement channel, the only packages that should be shown are
updates and their dependencies. Useful, not useful, it does not matter.
Otherwise it is impossible to trust AU, because in current state it soon make
the mess with system installing God knows what.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Daniel Nicoletti 2012-04-13 11:22:18 UTC

Your new Firefox depends on libfoo, if libfoo is not installed it HAS to install otherwise you won't be able to use the software.
If your backend is installing things you think it shouldn't fill a bug against it on your distribution.
This will show what backend do you use:
apper --backend-details