David A. Wheeler via Tails-dev wrote:
>> Hi David! This could be a good trick indeed.
>> But first, some context: have you seen many occurrences of cases in which the automatic check failed to report an upgrade? I understand that this could be the rationale behind your proposal.
>
> Yes. It sometimes occurs when the Internet connection happens later, > and it happens if I disconnect & reconnect to the Internet multiple times.
> I *think* it only checks once.
ah! the latter sounds familiar, but the former case is more surprising to me. So thanks for reporting.
> Also, it's nice to be able to force a check at any time.
Sure, but it's also a sign that the other mechanism doesn't really work :)
>> Your proposal would imply a significant change in our current UI (which right now stays silent while checking, and when the check result in no upgrade being found), but might still be worth it.
>
> I suggest adding an option "--report-no-upgrade" for "tails-upgrade-frontend-wrapper".
> This option would cause a dismissable display "You are currently running the latest version. There is no upgrade available."
> or similar in such a case (instead of doing nothing).
Make sense, tracking this in
https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/20639
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