Package: update-notifier Version: 0.57.3-1 Priority: important Tags: patch
Update-notifier claims, in both it's package description and manpage, that it will periodically check for updates daily when, actually, this is not the case. The sources contain an debian/upgrade-notifier.cron.daily task which does precisely this but is not installed. Consequently, users install update-notifier will not get notified of updates unless they either manually install a task or install packages that already upgrade the package database (such as cron-apt) I think that either update-notifier should install the cron task or its documentation should be enhanced to properly describe its behaviour. I'm setting this bug as 'important' since the fact that the cron task is not install impacts its usability. Attached is a patch that fixes the manpage, the control's file description, the README (including also a minor fix in that GAMIN also works, not only FAM) and installs (as an example) debian/upgrade-notifier.cron.daily. I've not added a 'Recommends: cron-apt | apticron' entry in the control Please either apply this patch or active the cron task on installation (which might be redundant if you have cron-apt or apticron already installed). IMHO bug #414155 and #386891 are both related since both users reporting those bugs are mislead into thinking that update-notifier will update the apt database. Also please see this sub-thread in debian-security that starts http://lists.debian.org/debian-security/2007/08/msg00122.html (you'll see that I was also confused as to what update-notifier actually did) Thanks Javier
diff -Nru update-notifier-0.57.3.orig/debian/control update-notifier-0.57.3/debian/control --- update-notifier-0.57.3.orig/debian/control 2007-08-23 15:59:20.000000000 +0200 +++ update-notifier-0.57.3/debian/control 2007-08-23 16:27:03.000000000 +0200 @@ -33,10 +33,14 @@ Conflicts: upgrade-notifier Replaces: upgrade-notifier Description: Daemon which notifies about package updates - Update Notifier will check for the availability of new packages for - your Debian system on a daily basis. When it detects new versions of - the packages installed on the system are available, it will add an - icon on the desktop notification area. + Update Notifier can check for the availability of new packages for + your Debian system. When it detects new versions of the packages installed on + the system are available, it will add an icon on the desktop notification + area. + . + The package database has to be updated periodically for it to work, which + can be done with the example task provided or through the installation + of cron-apt. . It will work with any Desktop system that implements the FreeDesktop notification area specification, like GNOME, KDE and XFCE. diff -Nru update-notifier-0.57.3.orig/debian/control.in update-notifier-0.57.3/debian/control.in --- update-notifier-0.57.3.orig/debian/control.in 2007-08-23 15:59:20.000000000 +0200 +++ update-notifier-0.57.3/debian/control.in 2007-08-23 16:27:57.000000000 +0200 @@ -33,10 +33,14 @@ Conflicts: upgrade-notifier Replaces: upgrade-notifier Description: Daemon which notifies about package updates - Update Notifier will check for the availability of new packages for - your Debian system on a daily basis. When it detects new versions of - the packages installed on the system are available, it will add an - icon on the desktop notification area. + Update Notifier can check for the availability of new packages for + your Debian system. When it detects new versions of the packages installed on + the system are available, it will add an icon on the desktop notification + area. + . + The package database has to be updated periodically for it to work, which + can be done with the example task provided or through the installation + of cron-apt. . It will work with any Desktop system that implements the FreeDesktop notification area specification, like GNOME, KDE and XFCE. Los ficheros binarios update-notifier-0.57.3.orig/debian/.control.swp y update-notifier-0.57.3/debian/.control.swp son distintos diff -Nru update-notifier-0.57.3.orig/debian/update-notifier.1 update-notifier-0.57.3/debian/update-notifier.1 --- update-notifier-0.57.3.orig/debian/update-notifier.1 2007-08-23 15:59:20.000000000 +0200 +++ update-notifier-0.57.3/debian/update-notifier.1 2007-08-23 16:13:32.000000000 +0200 @@ -21,10 +21,20 @@ .RI [ OPTION... ] .SH DESCRIPTION .B Update Notifier -will check for the availability of new packages for your Debian system -on a daily basis. When it detects new versions of the packages +can be used to check for the availability of new packages for your Debian system. +When it detects new versions of the packages installed on the system are available, it will add an icon on the desktop notification area. + +In order to +.B Update Notifier +to detect new avialable updates a task has to run periodically to +update the package database. Such as task is available in Debian systems +if the \fBcron-apt\fR package is installed, a simpler task is available at +.B /usr/share/doc/upgrade-notifier/examples/upgrade-notifier.cron.daily +which has to be installed in +.B /etc/cron.daily/upgrade-notifier + .SH OPTIONS .TP .B \-\-debug\-hooks diff -Nru update-notifier-0.57.3.orig/debian/update-notifier.examples update-notifier-0.57.3/debian/update-notifier.examples --- update-notifier-0.57.3.orig/debian/update-notifier.examples 1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100 +++ update-notifier-0.57.3/debian/update-notifier.examples 2007-08-23 16:10:08.000000000 +0200 @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +debian/upgrade-notifier.cron.daily diff -Nru update-notifier-0.57.3.orig/README update-notifier-0.57.3/README --- update-notifier-0.57.3.orig/README 2007-06-26 13:00:11.000000000 +0200 +++ update-notifier-0.57.3/README 2007-08-23 16:08:14.000000000 +0200 @@ -3,12 +3,15 @@ This is a small tray icon that backgrounds itself and checks for upgrades. It must be ensured by other means (like a cron job) that a -regular "apt-get update" is done. This is ensured by installing a -option into /etc/apt/apt.conf.d to trigger a cron update script. It -uses FAM to monitor /var/lib/apt/lists/* and +regular "apt-get update" is done. +It uses FAM or GAMIN to monitor /var/lib/apt/lists/* and /var/lib/update-notifier/dpkg-run-stamp. If they change it updates it's status. +In order to get a cron job running for updates you can either install +cron-apt or use the cron job provided at +/usr/share/doc/upgrade-notifier/examples/upgrade-notifier.cron.daily + Needs libgnomeui2.0-dev and libhal-dev to build and gksu to run. It also supports interactive hooks and reboot notification support,
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