update manager/synaptic to warn if security updates disabled
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| software-properties (Ubuntu) |
New
|
Wishlist
|
Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: synaptic
For the wishlist?
It is possible to accidentally disable security updates, either in Software Sources, or in sources.list. As well as being a security problem, I only noticed this when a PPA required a higher version of a package than was installed for that version, which confused me.
I'd suggest that when exiting synaptic, the user should be warned if security updates are disabled. This could perhaps also be a balloon produced when update manager checks?
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Dec 12 09:10:53 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: synaptic 0.62.7ubuntu6
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSign
SourcePackage: synaptic
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-16-generic i686
| Cedders (cedric-gn) wrote | #1 |
| Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in software-properties (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| Robert Roth (evfool) wrote | #3 |
| affects: | synaptic (Ubuntu) → software-properties (Ubuntu) |
| Changed in software-properties (Ubuntu): | |
| importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.