severity 578717 wishlist thanks On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 08:37:48PM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote: > Package: update-notifier > Version: 0.99.3debian3 > Severity: normal > > Hi, > > When updates are available (e.g., when aptitude shows that there are > 42 upgradable packages), there is still no icon shown in the desktop > notification area.
Actually, this is the expected behavior. Ubuntu decided to just
run update-manager when updates are available and the last update
was more than /apps/update-notifier/regular_auto_launch_interval
days ago (and immediately for security updates). This can be
configured by /apps/update-notifier/auto_launch.
The problem is that update-notifier passes arguments to update-manager
which are not supported on Debian; and update-manager thus never shows
up.
We now have two options:
(1) Set /apps/update-notifier/auto_launch to false
This would cause the notification area icon to
come back again and appear as soon as new updates
are available.
(2) Add required arguments to update-manager
This would make update-notifier work as in Ubuntu
10.4; that is, run update-manager after
/apps/update-notifier/regular_auto_launch_interval
days if there are new updates.
Since this bug is about option (1), I am setting set severity
to wishlist. I am reporting a bug against update-manager for
option (2). I'll decide about (1) soon and tag this bug as
confirmed or wontfix, depending on my decision.
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Julian Andres Klode - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member
See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/.
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