[Bug 1443349] Re: update-manager failes to show new updates

[Brian Murray]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1320683 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1320683

** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1320683
   Update manager does not show all available updates

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Title:
  update-manager failes to show new updates

Status in update-manager package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Today I found the update manager pestering me once again to restart
  the system (stupid, since I already know about certain past updates
  and do not want to do that just now). However, when I checked for
  anything new using "apt-get upgrade" it was telling me about 7 more
  packages that the GUI failed to detect:

  $ sudo apt-get upgrade
  [sudo] password for paul: 
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree       
  Reading state information... Done
  Calculating upgrade... Done
  The following packages will be upgraded:
    gvfs gvfs-backends gvfs-bin gvfs-common gvfs-daemons gvfs-fuse gvfs-libs
  7 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 0 to remove and 0 not to upgrade.
  Need to get 681 kB of archives.
  After this operation, 28.7 kB of additional disk space will be used.
  Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 

  So why did the GUI not inform me of this? Why is it prioritising a
  restart that I ALREADY SAID NO TO instead of informing me of other,
  potentially important, updates that the underlying manager has found?

  It seems to me that the GUI update manager in 14.04 is a serious
  retrograde step from the one in 12.04 and the behaviour priorities
  need to be reassessed immediately:

  1) If there are new updates, show them before prompting for any other actions (e.g. pending restart).
  2) If I cancel a restart, don't pester me with a focus-grabbing menu after a few minutes and whenever something package-related happens (already listed as bug #1293445). That is exactly the sort of thing the notification area was suited to!

  My system details:

  $ lsb_release -rd
  Description:	Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS
  Release:	14.04

  $ 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

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