Public bug reported:
After a lot of back-and-forth, we finally managed to get update-manager
to accept "I'll restart later" (bug reports abound, go look them up).
Having savoured the bliss of seemingly getting back in control of my own
system, I was most dismayed to find an update-manager window on my
recently upgraded personal laptop to the effect of "updates are
available, but we require you to reboot in order to install them".
Now, I cannot bring myself to believe that the entire team of developers
for update-manager are insane, and neither can I believe that they would
wilfully sacrifice their misguided concept of system integrity by first
allowing one to forego a reboot and then deny one the updates that would
come afterwards, unless there would be some high-level miscreant that
demanded that very thing of them.
As I have stated before, we are based on apt and derivatives, and if the
supposed Duke of Darkness behind this misére has a legitimate reason for
demanding reboots at random - to the exclusion of installing real
security fixes, I should, at first, like said person to give a frank
account to the dpkg and apt developers of how they have failed mankind
in not blocking further updates until a reboot, or, alternatively,
engage in honest conversation with the community, including me, to at
least defend the fevered madness that is the reality of update-manager
at present.
And no, I'm not trying to exaggerate - I am trying to keep it as civil
as the current madness allows...
NB: Marking this as a security vulnerability since it precludes one from
the easy way to install further, possibly security-related, upgrades...
** Affects: update-manager (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Information type changed from Private Security to Public
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