Package: cron-apt Version: 0.9.2 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer,
I suggest this package to be included in the standard installation. From my view, it is essential for keeping a system secure to have all packages updated regularly by default. Moreover the standard configuration should be that /usr/sbin/cron-apt is linked by /etc/cron.daily/cron-apt so that the script runs on startup not only during the night as the current configuration. As long as no package is updated by default I don't see any risk, but only big advantages. I think it is especially important to include cron-apt in the standard installation because I thought myself safe falsely after installation: Supposedly due to a fresh "apt-get update" during install process one of the first things a fresh Debian installation does is display a "new updates" notification. So the user - in this case me - thinks that this is a preconfigured feature and that there is nothing more to do. It took me months to discover by accident that this is not true. I am open for any discussion! Thanks! Björn -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.1 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages cron-apt depends on: ii apt 1.0.9.8 Versions of packages cron-apt recommends: ii bsd-mailx [mailx] 8.1.2-0.20141216cvs-2 ii cron 3.0pl1-127 ii liblockfile1 1.09-6 cron-apt suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
