Upgrade Notifications for Kubuntu and Ubuntu Studio

[Neal Gompa]

On Thu, Sep 8, 2022 at 6:29 AM Harald Sitter <sitter at kde.org> wrote:
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> https://invent.kde.org/system/distro-release-notifier may help
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> On Thu, Sep 8, 2022 at 3:09 AM Erich Eickmeyer <eeickmeyer at ubuntu.com> wrote:
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> > Hi all,
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> >
> > In Kubuntu and Ubuntu Studio, we rely on Discover and the Discover Notifier to run our GUI-based package updates. I don't care if you personally use apt periodically from the terminal, a case can be made that we expect our users to use Discover to do their updates.
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> > Unfortunately, Discover is very, very flawed. It uses packagekit as its backend and its upgrader is designed to do one thing: upgrade packages. By comparison, the Ubuntu Update Manager will give the user the option to remove unused packages, unused kernels. and even notify of new Ubuntu releases, which is something that Discover cannot do since it's built to be as distribution-agnostic as possible.

Plasma Discover *can* support all these things. That is dependent on
the PackageKit backend and whether your distribution ships AppStream
metadata to identify your operating system and its upgrade path. This
is something that is being worked on for Fedora KDE, so I'm aware of
the possibility.




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Neal Gompa (FAS: ngompa)