Thanks for this additional information.
There is nothing that prevents third parties from using it, its just that the
current main use-case is stuff that is happening during package installation.
The dpkg-run-stamp file is automatcially updated when apt is finished
so in practise this should
We thought that /var/lib/update-notifier/user.d was the place where
applications that wanted to use the update-notifier infrastructure
should drop a file. Our application required an specific action to be
run by the user upon upgrade, thus we dropped a file mimicking how the
firefox package does
Thanks for your bugreport.
Given that the files installed there are from packages (or the system is
designed for that) having the touch requirement sounds not too bad to
me. This ensures that e.g. firefox-restart notifciation are not shown
until he install is actually finished. Or what is your
** Changed in: update-notifier
Importance: Undecided = Medium
Status: New = Triaged
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u-n does not process a file dropped in /var/lib/update-notifier/user.d until
dpkg-run-stamp was written
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/248965
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