Re: Jessie update notes?

Hannu Virtanen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.user.laptop
Message-ID <[email protected]>
OK. lets' see. 

I think that somebody from debian team has seen this discussion and among them the discussion is going on what do (if anything). 

with best, 

-hv

 
      From: Alexsander <[email protected]>
 To: [email protected] 
 Sent: Monday, September 21, 2015 4:21 AM
 Subject: Re: Jessie update notes?
   
    Bob

    I have gnome-packagekit installed, but it doesn't make the 
notifications. Some of the packages you listed don't exist in Jessie 
repositories. I think it's time somebody create a bugreport and send it 
to the Debian team.

Alexsander



On 20-09-2015 20:43, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Hannu Virtanen wrote:
>> The problem is that with 'jessie' I don't get any automatic notice,
>> if there are (security) updates available. With previous versions
>> that was no issue.
>>
>> I'm using gnome.
> Previously in Wheezy 7 and before there were packages called:
>
>    update-notifier
>    update-notifier-common
>    update-manager-gnome
>    update-manager
>    update-manager-core
>    update-manager
>    update-notifier
>
> I always eschew those and remove them which is why I have the list.
> But it sounds like you want them?  In any case when I look now they
> all say:
>
>    Transitional dummy package replacing update-notifier with GNOME-PackageKit
>
> Therefore I assume those are all obsoleted now by GNOME-PackageKit.
> Do you have GNOME-PackageKit installed?
>
> If so then I assume that having replaced the update notifiers above
> that it should be doing the notification.  If not then it looks like a
> deficiency of that gnome package that it has replaced the previous.
>
> As I said, I eschew those and therefore can't tell if GNOME-PackageKit
> notifies now or not.  I can only presume that it does.
>
> Bob
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