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[Phill Whiteside <PhillW@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

when using daily build of 14.04 proposed is turned on as it is a daily
build and expected to behave that way. 14.04 release itself does not have
'proposed' flag enabled.... Or, if it does is a major bug and a Lubuntu one.

Regards,

Phill.


On 20 July 2014 00:53, Phill Whiteside <PhillW@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Boss,
>
> from ubuntu-GNOME
>
> (00:35:30) phillw: darkxst: it appears that 14.04 repo's for updates
> include 'proposed', this is not a good idea. It also appears that it cannot
> be turned off as a repo area using GUI and needs CLI
> (00:36:21) phillw: you can look in your apt area to see if this is the
> case for U-GNOME :)
> (00:38:56) darkxst: phillw, synaptic just launches software-properties to
> edit repos doesnt it?
> (00:41:01) darkxst: all my trusty VM's have proposed enabled on purpose,
> let me check a fresh install
> (00:41:50) phillw: darkxst: yup, just an GUI, but proposed is enabled by
> default. Which is an oversight.
> (00:44:08) darkxst: phillw, I can disable proposed from
> software-properties
>
> Regards,
>
> Phill.
>
>
> On 19 July 2014 23:50, Phill Whiteside <PhillW@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hi boss,
>>
>> xubuntu do not have synaptic package manager installed as default.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Phill.
>>
>>
>> On 19 July 2014 19:32, Julien Lavergne <gilir@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> Is other flavours affected, like Xubuntu ? It's weird that something so
>>> common, and theoretically not touched by our configurations, only affect us.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Julien Lavergne
>>> Le 19 juil. 2014 11:44, <meets@xxxxxx> a écrit :
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I have noticed an issue with the configuration for the choice of
>>>> updates in Lubuntu
>>>> Trusty daily a few days ago. I have just resynced with todays daily a
>>>> moment ago with
>>>> zsync and I am again testing it in Virtualbox.
>>>>
>>>> Now I have started it, opened Synaptic and looked into the menu
>>>> Settings > Repositories >
>>>> Tab Updates and this is what I can see now: the first three lines are
>>>> selected, including
>>>> "Trusty proposed", which should not be ticked, if I believe what I am
>>>> used to see.
>>>>
>>>> Last time I tried a few days ago, all of them were ticked.
>>>>
>>>> Last time as well as now, the Trusty proposed line **can't be**
>>>> deselected! Here is a
>>>> screen-shot of what I am seeing:
>>>> http://meets.free.fr/images/lubuntu-trusty-daily-sources.png
>>>>
>>>> So where does that come from that it is ticked and can't even be
>>>> unticked? I don't have
>>>> an answer to the first question, but I found a lead for the second one.
>>>> In /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ there is a file having for name
>>>> "proposed.list" containing
>>>> the source for it.
>>>>
>>>> The third line won't be unticked from within the gui, the only way it
>>>> will be deactivate
>>>> is by removing the proposed.list file. (Or moving it out of the way).
>>>> But eventually it
>>>> will be recreated. (By ticking again the option, which then can't be
>>>> unticked... )
>>>>
>>>> What do you people think? Is it an expected behavior (for what reason
>>>> then?) or is it a
>>>> bug?
>>>>
>>>> Best regards,
>>>> Mélodie
>>>>
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