#1117223 gnome-software: Backport "Updates are out of date" notification fix to 48

Package:
gnome-software
Source:
gnome-software
Description:
Software Center for GNOME
Submitter:
Christian Weiske
Date:
2025-11-23 19:13:02 UTC
Severity:
normal
Tags:
#1117223#5
Date:
2025-10-05 05:52:59 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,

Gnome shell shows annoying notifications "Updates are out of date".
I set software updates to "manual" in the gnome-software settings, but
still get those annoying popups.

This has been fixed by the gnome developers in v49:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-software/-/issues/2815

Please backport this to v48 so it gets fixed in Debian 13 stable.

#1117223#14
Date:
2025-11-23 19:09:46 UTC
From:
To:
The requested fix was already included in gnome-software 48.3-2. Here
is an excerpt from that changelog entry:

  * d/patches: Update from upstream gnome-48 branch, up to commit
    48.3-6-g10fb1a6bb
    - d/p/update-monitor-improve-logic-for-deciding-when-to-show-no.patch:
      Reduce frequency of update notifications
      (gnome-software#2856 upstream)
      + Don't notify users about out-of-date apt metadata until it's at
        least 7 days old.
      + Don't nag users about software update actions more than once per
        day, with the frequency reducing according to the importance of
        the action we are suggesting.
      + Don't notify users about out-of-date apt metadata if we would not
        be able to download it right now in any case. In particular this
        prevents an annoying notification when resuming from suspend,
        during which time we can expect that networking has not yet come
        back up.

Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha