Public bug reported:
Recently I discovered that rsync was not automatically upgraded with a
security update on one of my boxes but it was updated on others. The box
runs an rsync server and obviously it had a modified /etc/rsyncd.conf
and running unattended-upgrade -d revealed that due to this fact it
wasn't being updated. However, I also have configured APT to supply dpkg
with such command-line options that no config file prompt would occur.
It doesn't make sense to blacklist packages that contain modified config
files if APT/dpkg is configured in this way. This functionality can be
achieved by including the following snippet in the apt.conf:
Dpkg {
Options { "--force-confold" };
};
The attached patch will modify unattended-update to do that. If you like
the idea, feel free to use it as is or as an inspiration for better
implementation of the idea.
** Affects: unattended-upgrades (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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PATCH: Don't blacklist packages that contain modified config files if dpkg is
not going to prompt on them
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/135247
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