** No longer affects: unattended-upgrades (Ubuntu Wily) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to unattended-upgrades in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1446552
Title: Unattended upgrades handles new dependencies inconsistently Status in unattended-upgrades package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: When an installed package adds a dependency that is not yet installed on the system, this sometimes causes the package to not be installed, depending on the origin containing the original candidate version. I believe that the problem is in /usr/bin/unattended-upgrade, line 102. Here a check is performed to prevent downgrades. However, as a side effect it also prevents adjusting the candidate version for packages that have not yet been installed (because pkg.is_upgradable is False for packages that have not been installed). This makes updating private packages using unattended-upgrades troublesome, especially when new dependencies have been added. Currently it requires repackaging the dependencies with a slightly higher version number than what is in the main repository, and then hosting them on the private repository, which is time consuming and error-prone. With the included patch, it is sufficient to just host the same version on the private repository. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unattended-upgrades/+bug/1446552/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
