[Bug 495796] [NEW] update manager/synaptic to warn if security updates disabled

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Binary package hint: synaptic

For the wishlist?

It is possible to accidentally disable security updates, either in
Software Sources, or in sources.list.  As well as being a security
problem, I only noticed this when a PPA required a higher version of a
package than was installed for that version, which confused me.

I'd suggest that when exiting synaptic, the user should be warned if
security updates are disabled.  This could perhaps also be a balloon
produced when update manager checks?

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Dec 12 09:10:53 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: synaptic 0.62.7ubuntu6
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-16.53-generic
SourcePackage: synaptic
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-16-generic i686

** Affects: software-properties (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: apport-bug i386
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update manager/synaptic to warn if security updates disabled
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/495796
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