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

[Robert Roth]

Reassigned to software-properties, as that is the source editor for synaptic, update-manager and software center, and if we do want such a warning to be shown, it should be system-wide, we don't want to implement the warning functionality in all apps.
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** Package changed: synaptic (Ubuntu) => software-properties (Ubuntu)

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Title:
  update manager/synaptic to warn if security updates disabled

Status in “software-properties” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  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

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