The scope of update-manager is to provide an easy to use interface for
the daily/weekly updates of a Distribution.
If you want to perform advanced actions I would recommend to use
Synaptic.
Skipping updates is a bad choice. It will leave insecure software on
your system. If you keep software on your system, you will do so since
you want to reuse it in the future. So you should also install security
updates for this software.
In contrast to Windows we have got much deeper dependencies between
software packages. Some updates will be possible skipped, since they
depend on a version that you have set on ignore before. Furthermore
there is no central configuration option that is used by all package
manager frontends. So we would add a lot of inconsistency.
Ubuntu allows you to specify your general update policy: only security
fixes, also major bug fixes ... Writing better readable changelogs would
require a lot of resources, and so is cleary not doable. So you should
follow your defined policy. If you say that you only want security
fixes, you can trust the Ubuntu project, that you will only get such.
The updates are already separated by origin if they are official Ubuntu
packages: Distribution updates, security updates ...
There is no information about how popular an update is.
Cheers,
Sebastian
** Changed in: update-manager (Ubuntu)
Status: Unconfirmed => Rejected
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update manager 's lack of functionnality
https://launchpad.net/bugs/81252
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