Unnecessary Updates on AppCenter

[Suzie97]

What Happened

When I do sudo apt upgrade on the terminal, it shows no updates are available. But the AppCenter shows that some updates are available. Even if I do those updates from the AppCenter, they continue to show up after some time.

Expected Behavior

It should display the updates only once, and once they are done, they should not be displayed again. I regularly update my system but the AppCenter shows the same updates again and again.

Platform Information

[danirabbit]

Can you provide an example of what updates are being shown? Are these perhaps Flatpak updates which would not be managed by apt?

[Suzie97]

I receive the same updates multiple times in quick succession. Like, I clearly remember that I had updated spotify on September. But even then, the same update appeared multiple times on October.

I don't know if the Spotify devs really release an update, as AppCenter shows that the last update released was in September. On Sun, Oct 25, 2020 at 10:07 PM, Daniel Foré [email protected] wrote:

Can you provide an example of what updates are being shown? Are these perhaps Flatpak updates which would be managed by apt?

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[cassidyjames]

@Suzie97 ah in that case, Spotify probably is being rebuilt but not providing any new release information, so we don't have any new details to show in AppCenter. Considering this is up to the developer of a sideloaded app to provide, I'm not sure there's anything concrete we can do in AppCenter.

I guess one thing to consider would be that we could show the latest release with a "No information provided by developer" string or something if the release is newer than anything in the AppData. Thoughts @davidmhewitt and @elementary/ux? At least that way the version number should be newer, and it places the blame of the lack of info on the developer, not AppCenter.

[Marukesu]

In the case of a flatpak manifest begin updated, we can show the commit message. For example, flathub uses the last git commit message as the export message.

$ flatpak remote-info flathub com.spotify.Client

Spotify - Online music streaming service

       ID: com.spotify.Client
      Ref: app/com.spotify.Client/x86_64/stable
     Arq.: x86_64
     Ramo: stable
   Versão: 1.1.42.622
  Licença: LicenseRef-proprietary=https://www.spotify.com/us/legal/end-user-agreement/
  Coleção: org.flathub.Stable
   Baixar: 11,9 MB
Instalado: 33,8 MB
  Runtime: org.freedesktop.Platform/x86_64/20.08

      Sdk: org.freedesktop.Sdk/x86_64/20.08
   Commit: fc826a0d6e7c7390f8dcc571e120792b9bc101071e3948034a674ea214f2683c
      Pai: bf25bebe1bd665788c56fad0daa3c13db3c841a0d39a12d8b5366c1989cee509
  Assunto: Add spotifywm to fix window class, icon, etc. (#142) (99ca84da)
     Data: 2020-10-30 21:41:55 +0000

[ovz93br43v7]

Same here, I get updates for flatpak apps which I have uninstalled long time ago.

[Suzie97]

Reopening, as it was closed carelessly. I apologise. 😅️