This has been fixed as of ubuntu-meta 1.474
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-meta/1.474
$ sudo apt rdepends unattended-upgrades
unattended-upgrades
Reverse Depends:
Recommends: python3-software-properties
Recommends: ubuntu-mate-desktop
Recommends: ubuntu-mate-core
Depends: freedombox
Recommends: fbx-all
Recommends: ubuntu-server-minimal
Recommends: ubuntu-server
** Changed in: ubuntu-meta (Ubuntu Jammy)
Status: Confirmed => Fix Released
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1954724
Title:
Removing unattended-upgrades removes ubuntu-server-minimal
Status in ubuntu-meta package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Status in ubuntu-meta source package in Impish:
Confirmed
Status in ubuntu-meta source package in Jammy:
Fix Released
Bug description:
On Impish and later, removing unattended-upgrades also removes ubuntu-
server-minimal due to ubuntu-server-minimal depending on unattended-
upgrades
$ sudo apt remove unattended-upgrades
...
The following packages will be REMOVED:
ubuntu-server-minimal unattended-upgrades
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
This behaviour has changed since ubuntu-meta 1.471 [1] when the
ubuntu-server-minimal metapackage was introduced, declaring
unattended-upgrades as Depends.
[1] https://launchpadlibrarian.net/550345392/ubuntu-
meta_1.470_1.471.diff.gz
On Focal, there was no such behaviour on a fresh ubuntu-server
install:
$ sudo apt remove unattended-upgrades
...
The following packages will be REMOVED:
unattended-upgrades
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 9 not upgraded.
Removing unattended-upgrades is quite popular amongst our users, and
they should be allowed to remove the package without removing the
ubuntu-server-minimal metapackage.
Looking at the source package for ubuntu-meta, unattended-upgrades is
only Depends for ubuntu-server-minimal, maybe we should simply remove
it, or instead, change to recommends?
$ grep -Rin "unattended-upgrades" .
./server-minimal-armhf:23:unattended-upgrades
./server-minimal-riscv64:23:unattended-upgrades
./server-minimal-arm64:23:unattended-upgrades
./server-minimal-ppc64el:23:unattended-upgrades
./server-minimal-s390x:24:unattended-upgrades
./server-minimal-amd64:23:unattended-upgrades
$ sudo apt rdepends unattended-upgrades
unattended-upgrades
Reverse Depends:
Recommends: python3-software-properties
Recommends: ubuntu-mate-desktop
Recommends: ubuntu-mate-core
Depends: freedombox
Recommends: fbx-all
Depends: ubuntu-server-minimal
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