John Scott wrote: > I'm looking to help a couple people I know personally get up and running with > Debian very soon, and I hope to help many more. Speaking from experience, my > primary concern is that Debian on the desktop does not notify users at all > when a new release is made or when the current release is losing support. > PackageKit does a great job at handling ordinary package upgrades for users > such as through GNOME Software, but although I think PackageKit has bits to > help users with release upgrades (or at least to inform them of such), I > don't believe the Debian-specific bits have been implemented to support this.
That would be because they happen every year-and-a-half to two years or so, and the reasonable window for doing a major upgrade is about a year long. If you have apticron installed, and /etc/alias pointing "root" at the primary desktop user's email, then the user will get email each time there are new package updates ready for them to install. When they do that, they will eventually see notes like: * Change /etc/debian_version to 10.12, for Debian 10.12 point release. and eventually, someday, they will see a note like: "bookworm has been renamed oldstable; trixie is the new stable release" But if you need things to happen in PackageKit, for whatever reason, you could talk to the PackageKit maintainers. -dsr-
