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Thanks for your report. Since you've provided enough information I'm confirming this report and let the devs handle it from here.

Additionally could you please provide the output of the commands:
lsb_release -rd
apt-cache policy update-manager

Thanks.

The release number is 8.10
And it's right after the installation so the default policy is used (I
guess)

I don't have an access to this computer anymore

This bug is also related to 7.10 and 8.04 as far as ive seen

I can invite friends from the Israeli community to display more details
about the bug

confirm with - ubuntu 8.10, gnome 2.24.1 (updates: update-manager 1:0.93.34. update-notifier 0.71.8).

while trying to confirm this bug, I got another - https://bugs.launchpad.net/update-manager/+bug/324448
will try to reboot and confirm again.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/update-manager/+bug/324448 too happens with Hebrew but not with English user interface

Setting the treeview's direction to be fixed on TEXT_DIR_LTR will fix the issue.
By that we assume that package names and descriptions will always be in English.

To fix it on LTR simply add the line:
    self.treeview_update.set_direction(gtk.TEXT_DIR_LTR)
after the treeview's creation.
( http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~shlomister/update-manager/treeview-update-ltr/revision/1645#UpdateManager/UpdateManager.py )

The result can be seen in the attached screenshot.

I have create a bzr branch for it:
lp:~shlomister/update-manager/treeview-update-ltr

It looks terrific!
Thanks Shlomi!
Does anyone know who is in charge of this package so we can inform him in
person?

AFAIK, currently it's waiting to be reviewed by one of the Ubuntu Core Development Team memebers.
Since it's a very simple, single-line fix, I hope it'll get merged in time for 10.04 LTS.

Many thanks for the fix Shlomil ! Merged into trunk and it will be part of the next upload.

This bug was fixed in the package update-manager - 1:0.133.1

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update-manager (1:0.133.1) lucid; urgency=low

  [ Barry Warsaw ]
  * Fix obvious NameError by adding a missing import. (LP: #537250)

  [ David Planella ]
  * Made some strings translatable and extractable as a fix for
    LP: #537277

  [ Michael Vogt ]
  * po/*.po:
    - updated from rosetta
  * DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeApport.py:
    - do not try to add directories under /var/log/dist-upgrade
      to a apport report (LP: #369951)

  [ Shlomi Loubaton ]
  * Set text direction for update treeview to be always LTR regardless
    of current language settings (LP: #316171)
 -- Michael Vogt <email address hidden> Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:43:27 +0100