Package: apt-dater-host Version: 0.9.0-3 Severity: normal apt-dater-host includes a config file (/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99apt-dater-host_periodic) that
* enables automatic package list updates, * makes apt download upgradable packages automatically, and * cleans up old packages periodically. this is an imo relatively grave interference with another package's operation, and comes completely unexpected and undocumented. in practice, it costs people money if they are on pay-per-volume lines like cell phone internet -- apt is simply not expected to automatically operate unless configured otherwise, and there's no reason to assume installing apt-dater-host would modify that behavior, as it is just a program invoked by apt-dater. in other words: updates using apt-dater are just as manual as updates using apt-get -- more centralized, but still manual. having everything pre-downloaded is convenient to the apt-dater user, but no more than to the apt-get user, and it is with reason that apt normally doesn't auto-download. please remove that automation, or make it a debconf option defaulting to off. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.4-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages apt-dater-host depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.45 ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.26+b1 ii libimvirt-perl 0.9.4-2 ii lsb-release 4.1+Debian7 ii openssh-server 1:6.0p1-2 ii perl 5.14.2-12 Versions of packages apt-dater-host recommends: ii imvirt 0.9.4-2 ii sudo 1.8.5p2-1 apt-dater-host suggests no packages. -- Configuration Files: /etc/sudoers.d/apt-dater-host [Errno 13] Permission denied: u'/etc/sudoers.d/apt-dater-host' -- debconf information: * apt-dater-host/assume_yes: true -- To use raw power is to make yourself infinitely vulnerable to greater powers. -- Bene Gesserit axiom
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