update-manager defaults to "restart"

[Paul Crawford]

In Ubuntu 14.04 the update manager will pop up telling you a restart is required for certain types of update (kernel, etc). However, it defaults to "restart now" which is unsafe, as an accidental <return> with that pop-up in focus will try to reboot your machine, and that might be quite unwanted at this time.
The default should always be safe - in this case the 'later' button.
I see this has been fixed in the latests release 15.04.3 but the change has not been back-ported to the 14.04 LTS version.

$ apt-cache policy update-manager
update-manager:
  Installed: 1:0.196.12
  Candidate: 1:0.196.12
  Version table:
 *** 1:0.196.12 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1:0.196.11 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages

It is simple enough to fix, as shown in the diff/patch.

[Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)]

The attachment "The fix back-ported from 15.04 version" seems to be a patch. If it isn't, please remove the "patch" flag from the attachment, remove the "patch" tag, and if you are a member of the ~ubuntu-reviewers, unsubscribe the team.

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