On Wednesday, March 11, 2015 04:18:29 PM Rodney Dawes wrote: > On Wed, 2015-03-11 at 18:11 +0000, Iain Lane wrote: > > Similar to you, I'm unsure about the benefit for stable releases. There > > are probably cases where users struggling with bugs, or just trying to > > verify them, appreciate being able to get proposed updates easily. Both > > enabling NotAutomatic and removing the UI would make this harder. I'm > > not sure about the tradeoff here. > > What if, instead, we remove the checkbox from the UI, add the > NotAutomatic feature, and also enable the proposed archive in > sources.list? This way, the udpates would not be automatic, there > wouldn't be any confusing UI, and it should be relatively easy to have > SRU testing done for specific packages, by having a link or something > which installs the specific packages from proposed for testing. People > who don't want/need it won't get anything. People who want all the > proposed packages can enable them if they want. And people who just want > to test an SRU can click a link in the bug report or SRU testing request > e-mail, to install the relevant packages. > > Does that sound feasible?
-proposed isn't meant to be something large numbers of end users normally run packages from. It's really a different case than what NotAutomatic was designed for. Scott K -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
