[Squeeze] RFC and votes: Behaviour of update-notifier in Squeeze release

[Julian Andres Klode]

Hi,

In the 9.04 release of Ubuntu, it was decided that update-manager
should be run automatically minimalized when updates are available
and a certain amount of days has passed since the last update (or
immediately for security updates). It currently does not work in
Debian due to Bug#579789.

Now, we have the decision whether we want this behavior in Debian
too; or whether we should revert to the previous behavior with an
icon in the notification area when updates are available.

The default is Ubuntu's behavior and this actually makes sense
in my opinion, although we might want to decrease the interval
in which update-manager is run. And once Bug#579789 is fixed,
it would even work.

In my opinion, we should keep Ubuntu's behavior, as it will
make things easier from a packaging point of view (reply -1
after quoting this paragraph to vote against it, makes it
easy to analyse the results).
Comments? 

Regards,
Julian

-- 
Julian Andres Klode  - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member

See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/.
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