Public bug reported:
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).
** Affects: update-manager (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/777194
Title:
idea: make update-manager warn user if application updates are
available for app being run?
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