Settings for auto-check for updates are not properly respected

[8765pu]

I have "automatically check for updates" in Software & Updates set to Never. This is not respected, since the software updater window pops up regularly prompting about new updates.

Technically it could be that it's literally respected, since it's possible that the updates shown to me are the result of some random manual apt update command that was run by me a week earlier, but it's hardly what I expect. I expect to never be bothered by a disruptive popup (to put it mildly -- it's not a small window) when having set this option to Never.

There are more options in Software & Updates, like what to do when there are security/other updates, but none of those drop-down menus offer me anything even remotely close to "do nothing", so I'm forced to resort to the above option *just to not get disturbed on a schedule*.

I'm not interested in automatic updates of any kind, so that is not a solution to not being disturbed.

20.10

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[8765pu (8765pukxbhc876y-deactivatedaccount)]

I don't know if this is the right package

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Paride Legovini (paride)]

I observe the same behavior as described: even when "Automatically check for updates" it set to "Never" in "Software & Updates" I periodically get prompts about updates to install. This on Jammy and with update-notifier 3.192.54.

(User story: I update manually often enough, and I normally run the devel release, so I prefer to chose the moment when to install updates. The notification isn't really useful in my case.)