Reviewing crash reports in the Ubuntu Error Tracker and bug reports in Launchpad, I've noticed quite a few tagged "package-from-proposed". This tag is added by apport when the installed package version is available from -proposed and not from -security or -updates. I'm even seeing these from users of Vivid.
Evan suggested removing the "Pre-released updates ($release-proposed)" checkbox from software-properties-gtk, thereby preventing accidental enabling of it. I think this should definitely be done for the development release of Ubuntu. I also think it would be a good idea for Stable Releases given that there is no indication in software-properties what any of the pockets are for and given that packages in -proposed are not regularly cleaned up so may contain packages which have either failed verification or not had the bug fix verified. One argument I might have made for leaving the checkbox would be to make it easier for people to participate in the SRU verification process, but I don't having people unintentionally enable it is worth that. Are there any objections to removing the "Pre-released updates" checkbox from software-properties? Thanks! -- Brian Murray
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