please make distro-specific strings a build-time parameter

Thanks for your bugreport.

I will fix that, but most likely post-feisty (sorry, too much stuff).

Cheers,
 Michael

No big deal, the most significant strings can probably be quick-fixed for etch.

Thanks for your interest

There's a similar issue with the documentation. It would be great if this could be handled in a way that makes it easier for Debian (and Debian/Ubuntu derivatives) to add it's own changes and keep much of the manual generic.

See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=410916

Anyway, thanks for caring about this.

We allready removed many hardcoded strings and make use of lsb_release to detect the distro. Debian has got a quite old version of update-manager.

Furthermore we should use the components and the corresponding labels from python-apt. Currently the Ubuntu repo componets are hardcoded.

I will talk to mdke, the docbook guru, about how to use variables in the documentation.

Cheers,

Sebastian

 update-manager (0.200.0~rc2-1) unstable; urgency=low

   [ Stephan Peijnik ]
   * New upstream release.
   * Fixed typo in software-properties-gtk invocation code (Closes: #543954).
   * Fixed incorrect gconf exception handling (Closes: #544009).
   * Removed backported patch for bashisms in
     data/bug_script/debian_reportbug.sh: fixed upstream.
   * Added patch for incorrect handling of SystemError exceptions in the
     python-apt backend.

   [ Emilio Pozuelo Monfort ]
   * debian/control.in: Clean up trailing whitespaces and change tabs with
     spaces.
   * Standards-Version is 3.8.3, no changes needed.
   * debian/pycompat: Removed, no longer needed since the switch to pysupport.

 -- Stephan Peijnik <email address hidden> Fri, 28 Aug 2009 10:56:07 +0200

We will switch to the 0.2xx version of update-manager in the karmic cycle.

I believe Michael meant karmic+1 there.

The 0.2xx series still has a few problems and Debian is being used as a huge testbed right now. Don't get me wrong, most things work perfectly well, but some things that are needed for Ubuntu (read: dist upgrading) have not been implemented yet.