Bug 324139

Summary:	Installed and new versions + repository are not shown
Product:	[Unmaintained] apper	Reporter:	Volker Kuhlmann <bugz57>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Daniel Nicoletti <dantti12>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	normal	CC:	bugz57, korossy
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Volker Kuhlmann 2013-08-27 22:18:11 UTC

When there is an update available, the installed version is not shown, only the newly available but not yet installed version.
Local system policy is that for the decision to install any package, including updates, these are required:
 * Package name
 * installed package version
 * updated package version
 * repository name

Frequently a package is not worth updating because it hasn't even changed, just recompiled (see bug#324138), although apper thinks it's important enough to warn me about it. Both versions are required to see whether apper should just be ignored.

The repository name is required to check whether some package suddenly comes from "interesting" sources or for some reason the package's repository is about to be changed (which I'll never want for updates, at least not without proper notice that this is about to happen, and I don't trust apper to give such notice).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Add some more repos, like security, email services, or even better a bunch of home repos.
2. Wait until apper notifies that some update is available.
3.
Actual Results:  
Apper shows package name and new version.

Expected Results:  
Apper shows package name, installed version, new version, repository name.

The download size is useful to see too, though with most package managers it's always questionable whether the number means the download (rpm file) size or the installed package size.

Comment 1 Daniel Nicoletti 2013-08-27 22:25:32 UTC

Are you talking about Apper plasmoid updater or the regular Apper updater window?
If the latter it does provide all info you want, just right click on the list and select what do you want to see.

The latter even includes the download size (not very accurate), a more accurate value comes when you click apply and see the list of dependencies, but your backend doesn't report the right value at this moment.

Comment 2 Volker Kuhlmann 2013-08-27 22:47:00 UTC

Ah yes, thank you very much, but it's a bit confusing that the right-click only works on the table rows but not on the table header.

However the origin column is not persistent, but the "version" and "installed version" columns are, so I'm reopening. Tested without actually installing the "update", but the displayed columns are still expected to be persistent.
It's apper 0.8.7.

PS The size column is missing its header text.

Comment 3 Volker Kuhlmann 2013-08-27 23:38:08 UTC

I am talking about the window that pops up when clicking "review" in the notification shown in the notifier panel applet, or from System settings → Apper → Updates.
openSUSE 12.3, apper 0.8.0, packagekit 0.8.7.

Comment 4 Pal Körössy 2015-08-09 10:03:52 UTC

I suport this.

Comment 5 Justin Zobel 2021-03-09 01:00:07 UTC

Thank you for the bug report.

As this report hasn't seen any changes in 5 years or more, we ask if you can please confirm that the issue still persists.

If this bug is no longer persisting or relevant please change the status to resolved.

Comment 6 Christoph Cullmann 2025-06-10 18:22:54 UTC

This project is unfortunately no longer maintained.

If a new maintainer wants to step up and take care, the project is archived here:

https://invent.kde.org/system/apper

You can just clone it in your private namespace on invent.kde.org and if you have started to work on it and fixed/implemented something get it reviewed and the project unarchived.

Sorry for the inconveniences.