Matthias Klump wrote: >Hi! >I am inclined to demote the priority of this issue to "important", because: > >1) The automatic download will not happen unless there is a WiFi connection >- downloading over potentially expensive connections does not happen.
Ummmm - how does the availability of WiFi tell you anything about how expensive the connection is? >2) It does not beak the system on stable machines. It might do so on >unstable systems, if the user wasn't careful enough to not install updates >automatically. But that's something we expect users of "unstable/testing" >to care about, they are experienced users afterall. > >3) For users of stable systems, who expect their system to just do the >updates, downloading them and making them available is a very nice service, >and we shouldn't make it very hard to enable it or add additional steps for >that. > >However, I would agree that an easy and discoverable way to turn off >automatic downloads of packages should be provided. >I can't find one at time, which is not fiddling with dconf-editor. And what about the project-wide discussion before enabling such a broken mis-feature in the first place? We already have a packaging system that works for upgrades in place without needing reboots like this. I strongly object to this kind of crap being added to Debian for the sake of certain broken upstream software. This is making things materially worse for our users. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com "Further comment on how I feel about IBM will appear once I've worked out whether they're being malicious or incompetent. Capital letters are forecast." Matthew Garrett, http://www.livejournal.com/users/mjg59/30675.html
