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

[Alexandre Abbes]

Le 12/12/2020 à 18:50, Andrei POPESCU a écrit :
> On Sb, 12 dec 20, 11:27:01, Alexandre Abbes wrote:
>> Thank you for correcting the typo.
>>
>> Should I write a new bug report with the good typo, or is it OK with your
>> fix?
> It's ok, nothing else to do, except maybe prompt replies to requests for
> information from the Maintainer (if applicable) :)
>
> However,,, (see below)
>
>>>> * 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.
> The kernel should be updated regularly, primarily for security.

I do not agree with automatic updates without my consent, especially for 
the kernel.

I disabled gnome-software, because I found this caused my wifi to fail. 
It was a work of several days to make it work, since my wificard driver 
is not in the kernel (HP laptop). It was again some hours to find the 
cause. And I am not a beginner.

A beginner would throw this debian-gnome system out of the windows.

For me the programm should be

*either disabled by default, because updates are very easy with apt.

*or improved to allow the user  give its agreement for the updates.

I will maybe go to some other less intrusive environment.

kind regards,

A


>
>>>> * 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 ***
> In Debian stable the kernel upgrades automatically in two cases:
>
> 1. Security update *without* ABI change
>
> The Linux image package (e.g. something like
> linux-image-4.19.0-13-amd64) has a new version. Such a change should
> have no impact on external drivers unless they are buggy.
>
> In this case the package version can be 'pinned', assuming this is
> respected by Gnome Software.
>
> 2. Security update *with* ABI change
>
> In case the update is more intrusive the ABI changes. In this case
> the package linux-image-4.19.0-13-amd64 will be superseded by the
> package linux-image-4.19.0-14-amd64.
> Because this a new package it will be installed only if you also have
> linux-image-amd64 installed, whose only purpose is to "pull" the
> latest Linux image package for your release.
>
> If this is what you are seeing then it is usually enough to just
> remove linux-image-amd64, while keeping the Linux image package
> installed.
>
> Please note the above applies to Debian stable using APT. As far as I
> know gnome-software is just a frontend to APT, though I don't know if it
> is 100% compatible.
>
> You might want to contact one of Debian's support channels for advice
> and update your report accordingly.
>
> https://www.debian.org/support
>
> Kind regards,
> Andrei

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