Package: gnome-software Version: 3.22.5-1 Updates on Debian GNOME are broken (still after 4 years! see: http://blog.tenstral.net/2015/09/update-notifications-in-debian-jessie.html ). Even if one sets automatic daily security updates in settings, one is not notified of them nor they are installed, plus non-security update option in settings is grayed out. I tested this on a freshly installed Debian 9 GNOME netinstall, almost nothing done on it. There was a systemd security issue discovered, it’s still not installed on this machine nor was I notified, a week has passed. It’s actually two versions behind (it’s on 232-25+deb9u6, while 232-25+deb9u8 is current), I guess there were two patches (BTW debian.org didn’t mention the second one and I’d be still vulnerable on other machines that I update manually if I didn’t do apt update out of boredom).
I remember that I’ve gotten an update notification a few times on my other machine, but even then, clicking Install either resulted in a message ‘no new updates’ (apt update disagreed) or installing a few, requiring a restart and then when I do apt update, I see a bunch of updates that weren’t installed. Something doesn’t work right here. Either Debian should focus a bit more on GUI users or GNOME has to rethink their strategy, because every update it’s changed and it doesn’t work again and needs another fix. I like Debian, because I have to figure this stuff out only once every 2 years, but I don’t like it, because I’m not using only servers with CLI interfaces, neither do my non tech-savvy parents. --- System information. --- Architecture: Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-8-amd64 Debian Release: 9.6 500 stable-updates ftp.debian.org 500 stable security.debian.org 500 stable ftp.debian.org --- Package information. --- Depends (Version) | Installed ==========================================-+-============= appstream | 0.10.6-2 gnome-software-common (= 3.22.5-1) | 3.22.5-1 gsettings-desktop-schemas (>= 3.18) | 3.22.0-1 packagekit (>= 1.1.4) | 1.1.5-2+deb9u1 software-properties-gtk | 0.96.20.2-1 dconf-gsettings-backend | 0.26.0-2+b1 OR gsettings-backend | libappstream-glib8 (>= 0.6.5) | 0.6.8-1 libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.12.4) | 2.22.0-1 libc6 (>= 2.4) | libcairo-gobject2 (>= 1.10.0) | libcairo2 (>= 1.2.4) | libenchant1c2a (>= 1.6.0) | libfwupd1 (>= 0.7.3) | libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 (>= 2.22.0) | libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.46) | libgnome-desktop-3-12 (>= 3.18) | libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.22.4) | libgtkspell3-3-0 | libgudev-1.0-0 (>= 146) | libjson-glib-1.0-0 (>= 0.13.2) | libpackagekit-glib2-18 (>= 1.1.0) | libpango-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0) | libpangocairo-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0) | libpolkit-gobject-1-0 (>= 0.99) | libsecret-1-0 (>= 0.7) | libsoup2.4-1 (>= 2.52) | libsqlite3-0 (>= 3.5.9) | Package's Recommends field is empty. Suggests (Version) | Installed ============================================-+-=========== fwupd | gnome-software-plugin-flatpak | gnome-software-plugin-limba |
