Comment 4 for bug 177438

On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 13:17:48 -0000, "Duncan Lithgow"
<email address hidden> said:
> Could you give some examples of why this would be useful? I can see
> what you're on about - but why? It needs to be worthwhile before
> anyone will want to write the code...

Why one might want to skip an update, or why one would like to see
whether the available updates are genuinely new?

If an update requires a reboot or otherwise seems dangerous, I will
generally put off installing it.

When I have done this, I am likely to miss potentially critical new
updates because the "updates availabe" icon is there all the time, and
it doesn't tell me whether the available updates are "new" or the ones I
skipped already.

If this is sufficient for removing the "incomplete" tag, please do.
Otherwise, do you think you could provide more instructions for what
sort of information would be useful?

> Also please mention which version of Ubuntu you're running.

7.10 in particular, though not exclusively. I also have 6.06 and
various versions in between on various installations.

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