[Bug 1123346] [NEW] Notification frequency for "other updates" in Update manager is not obeyed

[Andreas Jonsson]

Public bug reported:

In Update manager with this following settings:

Automatically check for updates: “Daily"
When there are security updates: “Display immediately” 
When there are other updates: “Display weekly”

I expect the system to check for updates every day, notify me (the user)
immediately if there are security updates available, but only on a
weekly basis if there are other types of updates available. However, the
current behaviour is to notify the user immediately for "other updates".
At least this is true for updates provided from PPAs. I still need to
confirm  the behaviour for non-security updates from the standard Ubuntu
repositories though. Anyhow, this is quite annoying, as I get update
notices pretty much ever day now, and the only way I can see to avoid
that would be to increase "Automatically check for updates" to "weekly"
which I really don't want to do.

This is on Ubuntu 12.04.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: update-manager 1:0.156.14.11
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-37.58-generic 3.2.35
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-37-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Feb 12 13:44:30 2013
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429)
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: update-manager
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-04-14 (304 days ago)

** Affects: update-manager (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug precise running-unity

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Title:
  Notification frequency for "other updates" in Update manager is not
  obeyed

Status in “update-manager” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  In Update manager with this following settings:

  Automatically check for updates: “Daily"
  When there are security updates: “Display immediately” 
  When there are other updates: “Display weekly”

  I expect the system to check for updates every day, notify me (the
  user) immediately if there are security updates available, but only on
  a weekly basis if there are other types of updates available. However,
  the current behaviour is to notify the user immediately for "other
  updates". At least this is true for updates provided from PPAs. I
  still need to confirm  the behaviour for non-security updates from the
  standard Ubuntu repositories though. Anyhow, this is quite annoying,
  as I get update notices pretty much ever day now, and the only way I
  can see to avoid that would be to increase "Automatically check for
  updates" to "weekly" which I really don't want to do.

  This is on Ubuntu 12.04.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  Package: update-manager 1:0.156.14.11
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-37.58-generic 3.2.35
  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-37-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.1
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Tue Feb 12 13:44:30 2013
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429)
  MarkForUpload: True
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.utf8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: update-manager
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-04-14 (304 days ago)

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