Control: tags -1 wontfix Hi Annadane,
2018-06-29 9:26 GMT+02:00 annadane <fjfj...@protonmail.com>: > Package: unattended-upgrades > Severity: wishlist > > Dear Maintainer, > > If it were possible, I'd like to see unattended-upgrades not enable itself by > default when the user first installs it. I'm actually not sure what the > default is when you specifically tell it to install - aka "apt install > unattended-upgrades", but in any event I feel it should a) be off by default > unless the user specifically configures it to be on and more importantly b) > some packages have unattended-upgrades as a dependency or in recommends (I've > noticed it gets installed sometimes as an effect of installing some other > packages) - in that case ESPECIALLY it should really *not* be enabled by > default. Just my 2 cents. This also happens in Sid (it's not as catastrophic > in Stable though it can be) where one really wants to vet one's updates as > there's higher chance of breakage. Installing or not installing u-u by default is not up to the u-u maintainers, but up to the ones working on installers. It u-u's case I agree with their decision to have u-u installed by default since this package ensures that systems are kept up-to-date on server installs. U-u can be disabled by the administrator at any time, or it can be configured to keep a specific set of packages unaffected. A discussion about having it enabled can be read in #597061. If you are on stable or testing and any upgrade breaks, please report it, those breakages should be fixed. If you are on sid, since transitions can be in flight or due to other transient bugs your upgrades may fail, but unattended-upgrades is upgrading packages in minimal sets and as a Sid User you should be able able to recover from those states. Sid Users should be aware of the risks of running bleeding edge Debian and I updated the recommendations for them to consider disabling unattended-upgrades at https://wiki.debian.org/DebianUnstable Cheers, Balint
