Bug#977158: gnome-sofware: gnome software updates the kernel without my consent. My wifi driver needs to be recompiled.

Andrei POPESCU andreimpopescu at gmail.com
Sat Dec 12 08:43:16 GMT 2020


Control: reassign -1 gnome-software

On Vi, 11 dec 20, 22:15:38, Al.ABBES wrote:
> Package: gnome-sofware
> Severity: normal
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***
> 
>    * What led up to the situation?
> my wifi driver does not work after each update.  gnome softawre updates 
> the kernel without asking. It is not polite? It is a security issue.
>    * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
>      ineffective)?
>    * What was the outcome of this action?
> I did not find why my wifi driver did not work suddenly.
>    * What outcome did you expect instead?
> Gnome-software should not be working by default, and should not have access to essential softwares.
> *** End of the template - remove these template lines ***
> 
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 10.6
>   APT prefers stable-updates
>   APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-12-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
> Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
> Locale: LANG=fr_CH.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_CH.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=fr_CH.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
> LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Fixing typo in package name.

Kind regards,
Andrei
-- 
Looking after bugs assigned to unknown or inexistent packages
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