[Bug 1441595] [NEW] update-manager defaults to "restart"

[Paul Crawford]

Public bug reported:

In Ubuntu 14.04 the update manager will pop up telling you a restart is required for certain types of update (kernel, etc). However, it defaults to "restart now" which is unsafe, as an accidental <return> with that pop-up in focus will try to reboot your machine, and that might be quite unwanted at this time.
The default should always be safe - in this case the 'later' button.
I see this has been fixed in the latests release 15.04.3 but the change has not been back-ported to the 14.04 LTS version.

$ apt-cache policy update-manager
update-manager:
  Installed: 1:0.196.12
  Candidate: 1:0.196.12
  Version table:
 *** 1:0.196.12 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1:0.196.11 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages

It is simple enough to fix, as shown in the diff/patch.

** Affects: update-manager (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Patch added: "The fix back-ported from 15.04 version"
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1441595/+attachment/4369342/+files/fix-restart.diff

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Title:
  update-manager defaults to "restart"

Status in update-manager package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  In Ubuntu 14.04 the update manager will pop up telling you a restart is required for certain types of update (kernel, etc). However, it defaults to "restart now" which is unsafe, as an accidental <return> with that pop-up in focus will try to reboot your machine, and that might be quite unwanted at this time.
  The default should always be safe - in this case the 'later' button.
  I see this has been fixed in the latests release 15.04.3 but the change has not been back-ported to the 14.04 LTS version.

  $ apt-cache policy update-manager
  update-manager:
    Installed: 1:0.196.12
    Candidate: 1:0.196.12
    Version table:
   *** 1:0.196.12 0
          500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main amd64 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
       1:0.196.11 0
          500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages

  It is simple enough to fix, as shown in the diff/patch.

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