Blocked Updates continuously trigger the Alert

[Terry Coles]

Binary package hint: kpackagekit

I originally asked about this using the Answers forum (see https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+question/78540). The problem is this:

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 suggest any or all of the following three changes:
1. Blocked updates on their own should not trigger the alert so that it only appears when an update that needs the user's attention is ready.
2. When the user opened KPackageKit to view the updates, an explanation of why blocked updates are there should be available, so they don't worry about them.
3. Alternatively, if the Blocked Updates are not important to the average user, why show them at all? Perhaps an option to suppress them might be the answer, which is set by default.

I did look for the option mentioned in 3. above, but couldn't see anything.

I am using KPackageKit 0.4-0ubuntu8.1 under Kubuntu 9.04 with the KDE 4.3 backport applied.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

The problem is that the updates are being blocked in the first place. In Kubuntu 9.04, PackageKit couldn't handle updates that required the installation of new software, which didn't happen rarely. This is fixed in what will become Kubuntu 9.10

[Ralph Navarro (ralph-navarrocomputing)]

Why isn't this fixed in Kubuntu 9.04? Isn't 9.04 supposed to be a supported build?