[Touch-packages] [Bug 1817559] Re: update-notifier ignores update-manager's settings

2019-03-01 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
Specification updated : ‘Whenever “Automatically check for updates:” is set to “Never” (so any security updates are known from manual or previous checks), the “When there are security updates:” menu should consist of options “Re

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1817559] Re: update-notifier ignores update-manager's settings

2019-03-01 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
Ubuntu’s update prompt is a notification in the ordinary English sense of the word. So I guess the dconf keys predate update-notifier’s change from using FDo notifications to launching update-manager, but I don’t think that requir

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1817559] Re: update-notifier ignores update-manager's settings

2019-02-28 Thread Steve Langasek
Changing the setting for how often to automatically check for updates to 'Never' instructs the system not to automatically run 'apt-get update' to check for updates. It does not invalidate the results of a previous 'apt-get update' run which has already found that there are updates waiting to be a