[ubuntu-studio-devel] Upgrade Notifications for Kubuntu and Ubuntu Studio

[Erich Eickmeyer]

On Thursday, September 8, 2022 3:39:30 AM PDT Neal Gompa wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 8, 2022 at 6:29 AM Harald Sitter <sitter at kde.org> wrote:
> > https://invent.kde.org/system/distro-release-notifier may help
> > 
> > On Thu, Sep 8, 2022 at 3:09 AM Erich Eickmeyer <eeickmeyer at ubuntu.com> 
wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 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.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 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.
> 

I'm not sure about that. The way that Ubuntu does the notification is Update 
Manager monitors http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/meta-release-lts[1] or _http://
changelogs.ubuntu.com/meta-release_ depending on whether or not /etc/update-
manager/release-upgrades has been set to "Prompt=lts" or "Prompt=normal" 
respectively. This can be set via the frontend software-properties[-qt]. So, unless this 
can be converted to AppStream metadata, I'm not sure this is completely useful, nor 
am I sure the team would be willing to implement something there.

-- 
Erich Eickmeyer
Project Leader - Ubuntu Studio
Member - Ubuntu Community Council

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[1] http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/meta-release-lts
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