OK, this is beginning to annoy.

[Daniel Robitaille]

On 8/5/06, Michael T. Richter <ttmrichter at gmail.com> wrote:
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>  In the past five days I've had a lot of multi-megabyte security update downloads.  I'm having flashbacks to "Patch Tuesdays" here--only it's been practically every day this past week.  What is going on that's suddenly making dozens of seemingly unrelated packages require updates?
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>  Today's batch includes something called "app-install-data-commercial", practically all of gstreamer, pango, kubuntu-desktop, ubuntu-practically-everything and so on.  And not one of them has anything telling me what the update contains while the Ubuntu Security mailing list is being very quiet about things.  Am I getting spoofed here?
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most of these recent upgrades are actually not security updates, but
minor upgrades/bug fixes via the dapper-updates repository.    Just
remove that repository from your sources, and you will not get them,
while still getting the normal security updates.  But I suspect there
are good reasons (as in bug fixes or small improvements)  for why
Ubuntu devs are pushing  these minor upgrades in that repository.

As for app-install-data-commercial, this is to allow the add
applications software to access the Canonical commercial repository
(the one that contains Opera and Real Player). Since there was another
email on this list earlier about a new application appearing in that
repository today, this upgrade is most probably related to this.


-- 
Daniel Robitaille