-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Steve Langasek wrote on 01/03/13 21:21: > > On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 10:55:14AM +0000, Matthew Paul Thomas > wrote: ... > >> 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;
Not only drift, but they wouldn't even be starting on the same day of the month. (They'd be starting whenever an admin first connected to the Internet after installation.) > 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. > > ... There would be no "previous monthly snapshot". I'm proposing a monthly option for prompting about non-security updates, *instead of* monthly snapshots. - -- mpt -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlEzTvQACgkQ6PUxNfU6ecqlRQCfQg3sKbTtxMJ0C5Gs4HV/7r9j mkEAnj6uh58tX90vU0siJq9Duao8sltc =T2tq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
