Public bug reported:
Today I found the update manager pestering me once again to restart the
system (stupid, since I already know about certain past updates and do
not want to do that just now). However, when I checked for anything new
using "apt-get upgrade" it was telling me about 7 more packages that the
GUI failed to detect:
$ sudo apt-get upgrade
[sudo] password for paul:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
gvfs gvfs-backends gvfs-bin gvfs-common gvfs-daemons gvfs-fuse gvfs-libs
7 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 0 to remove and 0 not to upgrade.
Need to get 681 kB of archives.
After this operation, 28.7 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
So why did the GUI not inform me of this? Why is it prioritising a
restart that I ALREADY SAID NO TO instead of informing me of other,
potentially important, updates that the underlying manager has found?
It seems to me that the GUI update manager in 14.04 is a serious
retrograde step from the one in 12.04 and the behaviour priorities need
to be reassessed immediately:
1) If there are new updates, show them before prompting for any other actions
(e.g. pending restart).
2) If I cancel a restart, don't pester me with a focus-grabbing menu after a
few minutes and whenever something package-related happens (already listed as
bug #1293445). That is exactly the sort of thing the notification area was
suited to!
My system details:
$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS
Release: 14.04
$ apt-cache policy update-manager
update-manager:
Installed: 1:0.196.12
Candidate: 1:0.196.12
Version table:
*** 1:0.196.12 0
500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main amd64
Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
1:0.196.11 0
500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages
** Affects: update-manager (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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update-manager failes to show new updates
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