[Impact]
Come to find out that the desktop's graphical-session.target is not working in Bionic nor in Ubuntu 17.10. The update-notifier-release check (.path and .service files) are part of that and subsequently are not working. These raise a dialog letting the user know of the availability of a new release of Ubuntu. They should be fixed for both releases. It will be fixed by restoring update-notifier's old behavior running check-new-release-gtk every couple of days which is sad!
[Test Case]
1) Ensure /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades has Prompt=normal
2) Modify /usr/lib/ubuntu-release-upgrader/check-new-release-gtk and set the --devel-release option to a default of "True" this is needed since bionic is still in development
3) Use dconf-editor modify com.ubuntu.update-notifier.release-check-time and set the value to 0
4) kill update-notifier
5) run update-notifier --debug-new-release check
Observe a dialog regarding Ubuntu 18.04 being available
[Regression Potential]
The job is already broken and users won't get the check-new-release-gtk dialog about the next release so this'll be an improvement although check-new-release-gtk will be run regularly.
Hello Brian, or anyone else affected,
Accepted update-notifier into artful-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https:/
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