User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042708 Fedora/3.0.10-1.fc10 Firefox/3.0.10 If foo 1.0.0 is currently installed in the system and foo 1.0.1 is released as a security update, the update applet shows it as a security update and everything is fine. Suppose I dont install foo 1.0.1 for a few days (say I am away for vacation), and foo 1.1.0 is released marked as an bugfix/enhancement update. foo 1.1.0 hopefully contains the security fix in 1.0.1. When I come back, gnome-packagekit tells me it's a bugfix/enhancement update which is, in this case, wrong. From the point of view of my system foo 1.1.0 is a security update. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Wait for a security update for a package installed on the system 2. Dont install the update 3. Wait for a bugfix update of the package to be released after the security update Actual Results: Packagekit tells me that the latest update is a bugfix update Expected Results: Packagekit should tell me it's a security update for my system
You've spotted a valid bug, but it's more a bug with our infrastructure than anything else. In Fedora we only keep the last update, and the specific update delta is given a class. (a) Original ----> (b) Security update -----> (c) Enhancement So when C is pushed to stable, B is removed from the repo, and we don't have any information to know that B was a security update. That's if I understand how Fedora does this. As such, it's not really a gnome-packagekit bug, more of an infrastructure choice. I'll change the component, and get some feeback from other people.
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