-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Brian Murray wrote on 11/03/15 17:32: > > 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.
This is a symptom of "Too easy to activate the proposed repository" <http://launchpad.net/bugs/254584>. However, those error reports should not be disregarded in error tracker statistics. If some proportion of Ubuntu users turn on - -proposed when they shouldn't, that is a real influence on the average reliability of Ubuntu as people actually experience it. > Evan suggested removing the "Pre-released updates > ($release-proposed)" checkbox from software-properties-gtk, > thereby preventing accidental enabling of it. In the design linked from that bug report, I replaced the checkboxes with a menu containing three or four options: * "All updates" (the default, -security + -updates + -backports) * "Security and recommended updates” (-security + -updates) * "Security updates only" (-security) * "Custom" if current config is anything else, e.g. with -proposed. This would also make it much harder for people to make mistakes like having -backports turned on but -security turned off. You could implement this change independently from the rest of the design. > 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. I have a design for making that easier, too. :-) <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ContributorConsole#updates> - -- mpt -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iEYEARECAAYFAlUBeg4ACgkQ6PUxNfU6ecrG0gCgzT3GkU+58V3/lK4TriHi/+aN 4ycAnR0x1q81QldIoMBGyyyNPCyjFywi =0/xx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
