[Bug 2047778] Re: Software Updater unable to cancel Ubuntu Pro upgrade

[Sebastien Bacher]

> it is a serious issue, because basically Ubuntu is telling users that
you need to have Ubuntu Pro in order to have a properly secured system,
otherwise Ubuntu leaves you with vulnerabilities.

Let me rephrase, you think it's a serious issue to tell users that they
are using software with security vulnerability and to propose them a
free service to get fixes for those issues and you would prefer the
system to be quiet and let them use keep using unpatched software
instead?

To be clear Ubuntu doesn't leave you with vulnerabilities more today
that it has for last twenty years, there is just a new program available
today which give you access to more fixes than existed before (and it is
for free for personal use) and the UI is there to help users to discover
it and allow those who want to opt in for more security fixes.

If your point is that Canonical/Ubuntu should now support the LTS
versions for 10 years instead of 5 and include universe and that for
free, sure it would be nice right but that extra support has a cost and
those extra security engineers don't work for free either...

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Title:
  Software Updater unable to cancel Ubuntu Pro upgrade

Status in update-manager package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
   Every time I invoke Software Updater I get a list of Ubuntu Pro security updates, and a message at the bottom that for those updates I need to enable Ubuntu Pro, with only one other button to choose, "Remind Me Later".  I searched for Ubuntu Pro to find out what it is, and came to the conclusion that I do not want it;  but there seems to nowhere be any means to permanently reject its installation.  Every time I reboot the computer I get the same files offered again, and the only options again are to enable Pro or be reminded later, neither of which options reflects my will and desire.  Is this an option, as it seems to be dressed up to be?, or is it a MANDATORY upgrade?  My experience as a user is one of confusion.
    (I can still upgrade my packages through Muon Package Manager, though;  but Software Updater appears to have been rendered permanently useless by this persistent nag.)
    Perhaps this is very poor and misguided marketing trick;  rather than a software bug.
    What IS a bug, however, is the inability for a user to block a package or upgrade through the Software Updater interface.  This permanent nag with Ubuntu Pro points to a deficiency in Software Updater.  There ought to be a way to say NO to an upgrade in a way that sticks.

  Info:
  My computer is an old Lenovo T440 laptop.
  ~$ lsb_release -a
  No LSB modules are available.
  Distributor ID: Ubuntu
  Description:    Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS
  Release:        22.04
  Codename:       jammy
  Using Lubuntu desktop.

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