tags 563096 wontfix forcemerge 563096 593962 thanks (Re-merging, seems previous commands failed).
Hi Jeremy, On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 11:45:00PM -0400, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > On 13 June 2012 03:30, Ricardo Mones <mo...@debian.org> wrote: > > What Ubuntu does or not does isn't necessarily a valid reason for Debian. > > I've already explained why I don't want to do disable it (see merged bug). > > Sorry, but you're wrong. I don't think is a matter of being wrong or right, just a preference. > Anyone who cares to know when the latest sylpheed is released would be > better off subscribing to > http://www.sraoss.jp/mailman/listinfo/sylpheed-announce Why subscribe another list if sylpheed itself can tell you? > chromium-browser, Firefox/Iceweasel, Thunderbird/Iceape, LibreOffice, > etc. all explicitly disable the built-in update checker, because the > built-in update checker is fundamentally incompatible with how updates > work in Debian and other fine Linux distros. Arguably, those examples > are far more critical from a security and feature standpoint to users > than whether sylpheed is slightly out of date in the repository. Those "checkers", AFAIK, are trying to upgrade the application binary, which Sylpheed's doesn't, it's just a notifier. Pretty huge difference IMHO, and a big reason to disable them. > The needless spam by the notice that a new update is available is > pretty annoying for Debian testing users who have to wait at least 10 > days before they get the new update. It's ridiculous though for users > of stable distros such as Debian Stable, Ubuntu, and the countless > derivatives of them. Or you aren't using Sylpheed or you didn't care to look at the preferences of an unpatched one: there's no spam, any user not wanting this can disable it with a single checkbox click, forever. See common preferences, details tab, update sub-tab. regards, -- Ricardo Mones ~ Quantity derives from measurement, figures from quantities, comparisons from figures, and victories from comparisons. Sun Tzu
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