David A. Wheeler via Tails-dev wrote:
Hi David! This could be a good trick indeed.
But first, some context: have you seen many occurrences of cases in which the
automatic check failed to report an upgrade? I understand that this could be
the rationale behind your proposal.
Yes. It sometimes occurs when the Internet connection happens later, > and it
happens if I disconnect & reconnect to the Internet multiple times.
I *think* it only checks once.
ah! the latter sounds familiar, but the former case is more surprising to me.
So thanks for reporting.
Also, it's nice to be able to force a check at any time.
Sure, but it's also a sign that the other mechanism doesn't really work :)
Your proposal would imply a significant change in our current UI (which right
now stays silent while checking, and when the check result in no upgrade being
found), but might still be worth it.
I suggest adding an option "--report-no-upgrade" for
"tails-upgrade-frontend-wrapper".
This option would cause a dismissable display "You are currently running the latest
version. There is no upgrade available."
or similar in such a case (instead of doing nothing).
Make sense, tracking this in
https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/20639
--
boyska (he/him)
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