On Tue, Feb 07, 2017 at 02:25:12AM +0000, Unman wrote: > On Mon, Feb 06, 2017 at 01:19:00PM +0000, Patrick Schleizer wrote: > > The unattended-upgrades was not installed on my Debian jessie system. > > After upgrading to Debian stretch, the package unattended-upgrades got > > installed. 'reverse-depends unattended-upgrades' [1] did not make me any > > wiser. There must be a gap of my apt knowledge. Can anyone shed light on > > this please? > > > > Best regards, > > Patrick > > > > [1] > > Reverse-Recommends > > ================== > > * education-common > > * python3-software-properties > > > > Reverse-Depends > > =============== > > * parl-desktop > > * plinth > > > > Packages without architectures listed are reverse-dependencies in: > > amd64, arm64, armel, armhf, hurd-i386, i386, kfreebsd-amd64, > > kfreebsd-i386, mips, mips64el, mipsel, powerpc, ppc64el, s390x > > > > I remember a thread last year saying that unattended-upgrades should be > installed by default, and enabled. I guess that is what you're seeing > here Patrick. > This was on debian-devel - I thought it related to d-i but it may be > brought in as default package on dist-upgrade. > > have a look here: > https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2016/11/msg00262.html
I was, as so often, wrong. It's pulled in as a recommend from python3-software-properties which is being installed as part of upgrade. Turn off Recommends and it isnt installed. I think that follows from gnome-packagekit being installed, and pulling in software-properties-gtk, which pulls software-properties-common and so... So turn off Recommends/Suggests or review installs before upgrading.
