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 > > -- > Debian Developer | Freedesktop-Developer > I welcome VSRE emails. See http://vsre.info/ >