Advice needed: update-manager in wheezy considered dangerous

Matthias Klumpp matthias at tenstral.net
Wed Mar 13 14:45:09 UTC 2013


(Please keep me CC'ed as I am not subscribed to the list)

Hi!
The removal of the old update-manager is fine with me. Since Apper is
available, KDE already gets shiny new notifications, so from a KDE
perspective the old update-notifier is no longer needed. (we patched
Apper for that)
For GNOME, I think GPK is fine, as it is incredibly well-integrated
with the Shell and has a nice update view. (and it is secure). The
only known issues are that changelogs are not well formatted (haven't
yet found out why the markdown parser fails there, for Apper
everything is fine - but I am working on a patch upstream) and that
someone reported that updates are not shown in his GNOME session (i.e.
no update-notification is shown). The latter might just be some
misconfiguration, as I can't reproduce that issue here, and
gnome-settings-daemon should check for updates.

Unfortunately we can't have PackageKit 0.8.x in Wheezy, which is about
twice as fast (on some operations) as the 0.7.x series on Debian ^^
Removing the update-manager might annoy people, but placing a warning
might be desirable.
Kind regards,
    Matthias

(Maintainer of PackageKit, GNOME-PackageKit and Apper for Debian)



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