should support setting of whether or not to include phased updates

[Brian Murray]

update-manager is aware of an apt configuration option to either "Always-Include-Phased-Updates" or "Never-Include-Phased-Updates", however there no user interface for creating or changing this setting. I think it makes sense for software-properties (probably in the "Updates" tab) to have the ability to set the option as to whether or not phased updates are always or never included.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Matthew, could provide some guidance as to what this would look like?

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

If turning on -proposed should not have a UI out-of-the-box (bug 254584), then switching from phased to immediate updates should not either, for exactly the same reason. Developers or testers who want to do either should be able to do so in the Contributor Console. <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ContributorConsole#updates>

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Phased updates are not for -proposed but for -updates. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PhasedUpdates

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

That's right. But the reason you'd want to turn phased updates off is the same as the reason you'd want to turn -proposed on: because you're a developer or tester who wants to be sure you're testing the latest version.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Well, you may also be a regular user who does not to receive phased updates at all.

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

Can you give some examples of why?

[Lenin (gagarin)]

blog post linked from https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PhasedUpdates is not there anymore http://www.murraytwins.com/blog/?p=127 maybe not provide links that are not working?
checking web.archive... http://web.archive.org/web/20160822051755/http://www.murraytwins.com/blog/?p=127