[Bug 1441595] Re: update-manager defaults to "restart"

[Brian Murray]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1421044 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1421044

** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1421044
   Too easy to accidentally restart computer when 'restart to complete update' box pop up

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Title:
  update-manager defaults to "restart"

Status in update-manager package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  In Ubuntu 14.04 the update manager will pop up telling you a restart is required for certain types of update (kernel, etc). However, it defaults to "restart now" which is unsafe, as an accidental <return> with that pop-up in focus will try to reboot your machine, and that might be quite unwanted at this time.
  The default should always be safe - in this case the 'later' button.
  I see this has been fixed in the latests release 15.04.3 but the change has not been back-ported to the 14.04 LTS version.

  $ apt-cache policy update-manager
  update-manager:
    Installed: 1:0.196.12
    Candidate: 1:0.196.12
    Version table:
   *** 1:0.196.12 0
          500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main amd64 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
       1:0.196.11 0
          500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages

  It is simple enough to fix, as shown in the diff/patch.

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