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• Launchpad Entry: https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/repo-dialog

• Created: Date(2005-11-01T20:30:35Z) by CoreyBurger2

• Contributors: CoreyBurger2

• Packages affected:

Summary

The current repository dialog needs some redesign for third party package and adding universe.

Rationale

Make it easier to add third party packages and adding universe.

Use cases

Assumptions

• People who want security updates want security updates. They don't want security updates just from Main and not from Universe.

• People who want Universe software always want Universe security fixes and updates as well. The people who don't are the sort of people who know how to edit sources.list manually.

Scope

Design

The repository dialog will list ...

• Ubuntu 6.04
• Ubuntu 6.04 - unsupported software
• community supported (universe, multiverse, security, updates)
• backports

These sections will be followed by a separator, then repositories from other vendors, e.g. Adobe, Sun, bazaar.canonical.com.

Implementation

Code

Data preservation and migration

Outstanding issues

• how to visually show that new versions of Ubuntu available
• merge all tools into one
• show upgrades in channel/repo dialog

BoF agenda and discussion

Channels

• switch to channels

Upgrades

• make certain that certain channels (universe, upgrades) are enabled for the new release as well
• 3rd party channels, disable those that do not have a channel for the new release
• done through upgrade dialog, show visually (not yet decided how)