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(Get the code!)
> This is a bug reporting and not a trolling system. Please read the
> reasons above why this is not supported.
I concur with your request for people to stop trolling; that is not helpful.
However, I'm slightly confused as to where the reasons for not supporting this are given. Could you please indicate a message #? As a number of people have said, the updating system works fine in synaptic and aptitude?
I would like to echo the comments here and in some of the duplicative bugs that this is a real problem for 'normal' users, eg non-programmers or people who are not overly computer-literate. When I originally posted this myself in Bug #411095 I said:
'When Blocked Updates are available, KPackageKit makes them available in the updater and flags an alert to say that updates are ready. However, it prevents the updates being applied, so the alert stays up forever, defeating the point of having an alert. It is also a potential security problem (although not an actual one) because the user may get fed up with manually checking for new updates and miss a critical one.'
I still see this as being the most important problem caused by this behaviour.