Bug 298028 - autoupdater: do not push new applications as updates
Summary: autoupdater: do not push new applications as updates
Status: RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Alias: None
Product: apper
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: openSUSE Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Daniel Nicoletti
URL: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug....
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Reported: 2012-04-13 08:27 UTC by Thomas Goettlicher
Modified: 2012-04-13 11:22 UTC (History)
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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
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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