[Bug 147928] Re: too many annoying interruptions during distribution upgrade

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 86028 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/86028

** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 86028
   RFE: ask all config-file questions at the start or end of the upgrade

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Title:
  too many annoying interruptions during distribution upgrade

Status in “update-manager” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  I am at this moment upgrading from feisty to gutsy beta. I hoped I
  could just set it going, answer a few questions, and then forget about
  it for a few hours while I took the kids to their swimming lessons
  etc. However I came home and found that waiting for me for an hour or
  two was a box asking me whether I wanted to change ownership on files
  used by mldonkey. I come back another couple of hours later and I find
  that I need to give permission for samba and a couple of other
  services to be restarted. Unfortunately this reminds me too much of
  the ordeal of trying to install MS windows (I know it's not really as
  bad as that, but it's still frustrating).

  What would be much more user-friendly would be for questions such as
  the one about mldonkey to be asked before the whole process starts.
  Perhaps this would mean having a central list of questions that would
  be asked by dpkg-configure for the various packages so that these
  questions can be asked in advance and the answers fed to dpkg-
  configure at the appropriate time; I don't really know enough about
  this sort of thing, so probably someone can come up with a much more
  elegant solution than I could ever think of.

  I also wonder why the question about restarting cupsys, samba etc.
  should be asked at all. After all, if you are upgrading your system
  then you know you are going to have to reboot at some point, so you
  shouldn't really be surprised if a few services are briefly
  interrupted. Perhaps it might still be an issue on a server
  installation, but surely not for a desktop user?

  In short, you shouldn't have the upgrade process repeatedly
  interrupted by questions about this and that. You should be able to
  have a cup of tea and sit in the garden and enjoy the rain and let it
  chug along on its own.

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