Re: Ease of enabling -proposed

2015-03-11 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Wednesday, March 11, 2015 04:18:29 PM Rodney Dawes wrote: > On Wed, 2015-03-11 at 18:11 +, Iain Lane wrote: > > Similar to you, I'm unsure about the benefit for stable releases. There > > are probably cases where users struggling with bugs, or just trying to > > verify them, appreciate being

Re: Ease of enabling -proposed

2015-03-11 Thread Rodney Dawes
On Wed, 2015-03-11 at 18:11 +, Iain Lane wrote: > Similar to you, I'm unsure about the benefit for stable releases. There > are probably cases where users struggling with bugs, or just trying to > verify them, appreciate being able to get proposed updates easily. Both > enabling NotAutomatic a

Re: Ease of enabling -proposed

2015-03-11 Thread Iain Lane
On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 10:32:02AM -0700, Brian Murray wrote: > […] > Evan suggested removing the "Pre-released updates ($release-proposed)" > checkbox from software-properties-gtk, thereby preventing accidental > enabling of it. > > I think this should definitely be done for the development relea

Ease of enabling -proposed

2015-03-11 Thread Brian Murray
Reviewing crash reports in the Ubuntu Error Tracker and bug reports in Launchpad, I've noticed quite a few tagged "package-from-proposed". This tag is added by apport when the installed package version is available from -proposed and not from -security or -updates. I'm even seeing these from users