idea: make update-manager warn user if application updates are available for app being run?
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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update-manager (Ubuntu) |
New
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Wishlist
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: update-manager
Idea for discussion: would it be possible to have update-manager warn the user if:
- updates are available for the application the users is running/about to run.
(would require "apt-get update" or equivalent to auto-run daily?)
- updates have already been downloaded (but not yet installed) for the application the users is running/about to run.
The idea here being that maybe we should warn users if "security-critical" apps like firefox have available updates which have not yet been applied.
This idea may need careful consideration as some users may construe these warnings as nagging. As such, maybe a subset of applications could be considered. That subset might have to be graphical though unless we got clever with LD_PRELOAD to warn console users (although there are obvious problems with that).
Changed in update-manager (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |