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[Erich Eickmeyer  <1989263@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

** Also affects: kubuntu-meta (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: kubuntu-meta (Ubuntu Kinetic)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Rik Mills (rikmills)

** Changed in: kubuntu-meta (Ubuntu Kinetic)
    Milestone: None => ubuntu-22.10-beta

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Title:
  [FFe] plasma-distro-release-notifier for Ubuntu Studio and/or Kubuntu

Status in kubuntu-meta package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in ubuntustudio-meta package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in kubuntu-meta source package in Kinetic:
  New
Status in ubuntustudio-meta source package in Kinetic:
  New

Bug description:
  plasma-distro-release-notifier is an applet which, in conjunction with
  update-notifier, notifies the user of a new version of Ubuntu using
  the same logic that update-notifier currently uses from the
  configuration in /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades. This has been
  sorely missing from previous releases of Ubuntu Studio and Kubuntu and
  should be included in all releases of Ubuntu Studio and Kubuntu going
  forward and should be included in currently supported releases.

  Currently, users are not prompted when a new version of Ubuntu is
  released, and as such, users of the Plasma desktop (Ubuntu Studio and
  Kubuntu) get stuck on an EOL release very quickly. I have seen several
  posts on #kubuntu and Reddit requesting help because the user simply
  did not know that they needed to update their machine to a newer
  release. Including this package would prevent that.

  Tests on 20.04 using the same package have been successful, with not
  only a notification, but also a tray icon indicating that the upgrade
  is available.

  The intention will be, once through this FFe process, to backport the
  package via SRU to 22.04. A stretch goal would be to backport the same
  package to Kubuntu 20.04 through the same process as it is still
  supported until April 2023 and many users there are not getting the
  prompt to upgrade.

  I am still awaiting buy-in from the Kubuntu team to see if they would
  be interested in this, but this seems like, from a UX standpoint,
  something they definitely should have.

  As of this writing, plasma-distro-release-notifier has been accepted
  into kinetic.

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