Bug#479431: Should D-I upgrade packages during pkgsel?

[Geert Stappers <stappers@stappers.nl>]

Op 06-05-2008 om 15:49 schreef Otavio Salvador:
> Jérémy Bobbio <lunar@debian.org> writes:
> >
> > Sounds like a good idea. :)
> >
> > I think that we should do the upgrade without prompting if a security
> > mirror has been defined.  This sounds like a reasonable default.
> >
> > Would "safe-upgrade" handle changes in kernel package names?  (I am not
> > totally up to date on these new terms.)
> 
> I worry about the  time for the download in some connections all
> around the World. It can take a while and I think that we should at
> least provide a way to user to cancel the download if he wants to do
> that later.

Download time is also one of the worries I have about this update.

Another worry I want to share with you, is "leaving stable".

I think it is a good thing to make "stable plus security updates"
the default. But we should learn our users to actual update their
computer.

Doing an update at install time without prompting is NOT user-friendly.
Two reasons why it isn't:
* CDROM users are expecting an install from CDROM,
  they don't expect a download from the Internet
* The enforced download doesn't educate user to update thier computer,
  it gets them the wrong impression that an install is the way to go to
  get a system up-to-date.


Having "stable plus security updates" is a good thing,
but please don't keep it hidden for users of stable.


Cheers
Geert Stappers
user of unstable