Shouldn't bug user when updates are impossible to get

Bug #246316 reported by gwern
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
update-notifier (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Wishlist
Unassigned

Bug Description

So I was offline last night, and I noticed that the toolbar icon was still there and bugging me - You have updates available! You have updates available! I will keep taking up screen real estate until you explicitly kill me?

But of course, being offline, there was no way I could update. Software-properties doesn't download the packages for later, of course. In fact, I can't think of a single situation where software-properties should be bugging me offline:
# The packages could've already been downloaded through apt-get upgrade -f. But then I obviously already know about the new packages and have explicitly refrained from installing them.
# Installation is from a CD. But how often are packages available from a CD? You install from disk, but then by definition you already have the latest packages it has to offer.
# ???

So: I would like software-properties to either automatically download upgrade packages (but not install them, obviously), or to be quiet when Internet access is not available (this is surely knowable - isn't one of the default GNOME applets for network connectivity?).

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Anthony S. Hall (theidiotthatisme) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. What you submitted is not really a bug, or a problem in the current implementation of the software, but rather a feature request. Ubuntu has a site for collecting new ideas just like this and I encourage you to submit to. Please visit http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/

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Connor Imes (ckimes) wrote :

Agreed, you should not be notified of updates at any time you cannot actually retrieve and install them. If it becomes the case that they are already downloaded but not installed, it should say so.

Changed in update-notifier:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: New → Triaged
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