Bug#797135: gnome-software downloads updates automatically by default

[Steve McIntyre]

Matthias Klump wrote:
>Hi!
>I am inclined to demote the priority of this issue to "important", because:
>
>1) The automatic download will not happen unless there is a WiFi connection
>- downloading over potentially expensive connections does not happen.

Ummmm - how does the availability of WiFi tell you anything about how
expensive the connection is?

>2) It does not beak the system on stable machines. It might do so on
>unstable systems, if the user wasn't careful enough to not install updates
>automatically. But that's something we expect users of "unstable/testing"
>to care about, they are experienced users afterall.
>
>3) For users of stable systems, who expect their system to just do the
>updates, downloading them and making them available is a very nice service,
>and we shouldn't make it very hard to enable it or add additional steps for
>that.
>
>However, I would agree that an easy and discoverable way to turn off
>automatic downloads of packages should be provided.
>I can't find one at time, which is not fiddling with dconf-editor.

And what about the project-wide discussion before enabling such a
broken mis-feature in the first place?

We already have a packaging system that works for upgrades in place
without needing reboots like this. I strongly object to this kind of
crap being added to Debian for the sake of certain broken upstream
software. This is making things materially worse for our users.

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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve at einval.com
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