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

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort]

Hi,

On 30/04/10 21:20, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> 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? 

-1

I really hate that behaviour. We have Ubuntu in some labs on my uni and the
other day I was doing some work and update-manager kept opening every 5-10
minutes. If you go and enable that, make it pop up every few days at most (if at
all).

Cheers,
Emilio