Thanks for the update Matthias. I will definitely check how things are once
Gnome-Software comes out of unstable.

And yes, I agree that this is definitely a release-blocker. Not being
properly notified of security updates is a huge issue.

Ben

On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 2:06 PM, Matthias Klumpp <matth...@tenstral.net>
wrote:

> 2014-11-05 22:44 GMT+01:00 Benjamin Xiao <ben.r.x...@gmail.com>:
> > On Mon, 28 Apr 2014 11:16:34 +0200 Federico Bruni <fedel...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >> Package: gnome-packagekit
> >> Version: 3.10.1-1
> >> Followup-For: Bug #702241
> >>
> >> I can confirm the same problem on Jessie.
> >> gnome-settings-daemon is running. packagekitd was running, as you can
> see
> >> here:
> >>
> >> $ ps aux | grep packagekit
> >> root      8267  0.0  0.0 316432  6372 ?        Sl   10:43   0:00
> >> /usr/lib/packagekit/packagekitd
> >>
> >> but now it's not running anymore. No idea of the reason.
> >>
> >> Also, you can see in the attached screenshot the default settings for
> >> org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.updates: notify-distro-upgrades is
> >> unchecked.
> >>
> >
> > I am running Gnome 3.14 in Debian Jessie and I get no desktop
> notifications
> > about new package updates either. I don't even have
> > org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.updates in my dconf editor. I do have
> > "APT::Periodic::Update-Package-Lists "1" set though.
> With GNOME 3.14 the code for performing those tasks has been moved to
> GNOME-Software, which is in unstable at time.
>
> This situation is a terrible mess now, not only for other desktops but
> also for GNOME. We are working on a solution for that, so we can
> release Jessie with update-notifications. (I would consider having
> this working a release-blocker, but the release-team has the final
> word on this)
> Regards,
>     Matthias
>
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