setup 2.887 release candidate - please test

[Jon Turney]

On 07/02/2018 11:51, Jon Turney wrote:
> On 07/02/2018 11:38, David Balažic wrote:
>> On 7 February 2018 at 01:49, Steven Penny wrote:
>>> On Tue, 6 Feb 2018 15:04:49, Jon Turney wrote:
>>> - 'Current' is replaced by 'Best' (which is slightly different in ways
>>>> it's difficult to summarize briefly) and 'Sync' (which exposes the
>>>> --force-current (distupgrade) option through the UI).
>>>
>>> i get the desire for one word labels - but im not sure how good
>>> "sync" is. its not clear in the GUI what it does, and frankly, even
>>> reading your description doesnt clear up for me what it does. i
>>> guess i would need to run "--help" and see what "--force-current"
>>> does to figure it out. that just seems like more work than it
>>> should be.
>>>
>>> This could be improved by having a tooltip on the GUI item, 
>>> explaining in a sentence or two, what it does.
> 
> There already is a tooltip:
> 
> "Sets all packages to the version available from the package 
> respository, downgrading if necessary."

For the record, the changes in 2.888 are to fix a typo in this tooltip, 
and to avoid a crash when installing a source package.

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