Insulting someone who took time out of their 7 day work week consisting of 10-14 hour days is always great fun and dramatically improves the quality of final product. (Yes, that is why it took so long to respond.) Your retort made five critical mistakes though.
1) Assumed because something was posted on-line it was bug free. 2) Assumed it wasn't looked at. 3) Did not actually read & follow the bug report steps. 4) Conducted an invalid test. 5) Assumed "offline" was the same as "no network." The design is critically flawed. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareCenter#standalone-package ---- If one of your repositories contains a package with the same name but a higher version number, there should be an extra bar below the installation state bar, with text of the form ‘Ubuntu has a newer version.’ (without quotes) or ‘“Other Repository Label” has a newer version.’ (with quotes). Activating the adjacent “Newer Version” button should navigate to the software item screen for the newer version. ---- The instructions for the bug report specifically stated to test in a VM which was created with the network device box unchecked so no network device was available. Network calls made while there is a valid network device but no current network connection behave as expected. Network calls made when there is physically no network device or drivers loaded throw exceptions and/or fail unpredictably. No where in the design does it say how to behave when no network device has been installed on the machine. Because it wasn't in the spec, TDD against the spec would never test it. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1496136 Title: Software-center fatal design flaw To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-center/+bug/1496136/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
