On Thursday, September 8, 2022 3:39:30 AM PDT Neal Gompa wrote: > On Thu, Sep 8, 2022 at 6:29 AM Harald Sitter <sit...@kde.org> wrote: > > https://invent.kde.org/system/distro-release-notifier may help > > > > On Thu, Sep 8, 2022 at 3:09 AM Erich Eickmeyer <eeickme...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > > In Kubuntu and Ubuntu Studio, we rely on Discover and the Discover > > > Notifier to run our GUI-based package updates. I don't care if you > > > personally use apt periodically from the terminal, a case can be made > > > that we expect our users to use Discover to do their updates. > > > > > > > > > Unfortunately, Discover is very, very flawed. It uses packagekit as its > > > backend and its upgrader is designed to do one thing: upgrade packages. > > > By comparison, the Ubuntu Update Manager will give the user the option > > > to remove unused packages, unused kernels. and even notify of new > > > Ubuntu releases, which is something that Discover cannot do since it's > > > built to be as distribution-agnostic as possible. > Plasma Discover *can* support all these things. That is dependent on > the PackageKit backend and whether your distribution ships AppStream > metadata to identify your operating system and its upgrade path. This > is something that is being worked on for Fedora KDE, so I'm aware of > the possibility. >
I'm not sure about that. The way that Ubuntu does the notification is Update Manager monitors http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/meta-release-lts[1] or _http:// changelogs.ubuntu.com/meta-release_ depending on whether or not /etc/update- manager/release-upgrades has been set to "Prompt=lts" or "Prompt=normal" respectively. This can be set via the frontend software-properties[-qt]. So, unless this can be converted to AppStream metadata, I'm not sure this is completely useful, nor am I sure the team would be willing to implement something there. -- Erich Eickmeyer Project Leader - Ubuntu Studio Member - Ubuntu Community Council -------- [1] http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/meta-release-lts
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