On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 10:55:14AM +0000, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > Certainly we don't want people to instinctively dismiss the dialog. > The recent redesign has aimed at getting consent more often.
> But changing the updates frequency instead is a valid option, because > Software Sources has two update frequency settings. > <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareUpdates#settings> > "When there are security updates:", defaulting to "Display immediately". > And "When there are other updates:", defaulting to "Display weekly". > You can change the latter right now to "Display every two weeks", > without delaying your exposure to security updates at all. > As I understand the purpose of monthly snapshots so far, we could > achieve the same effect simply by adding a "Display monthly" item to > that second menu. "Display monthly" wouldn't guarantee that users who update monthly are updating to the *same* set of monthly packages. Displaying the prompt monthly, even if the user consistently acted on it as soon as they saw it, would cause inevitable drift over time; we would therefore not be able to provide security support for these users, because the security pocket would be updated with packages built for the previous monthly snapshot and the user has (for example) monthly + 5 days installed. So in that case I don't see any advantage to trying to provide security updates against the monthlies at all, and we should just pull users forward to current rolling with each security update. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ [email protected] [email protected]
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