A new version from xenial-proposed fixes the issue for me.
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root@ubuntu:~# dpkg -l unattended-upgrades
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version
Architecture Description
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ii unattended-upgrades 0.90ubuntu0.9 all
automatic installation of security upgrades
root@ubuntu:~# touch /var/run/reboot-required
root@ubuntu:~# unattended-upgrades --dry-run
root@ubuntu:~#
(reboot does not happen)
** Tags removed: verification-needed-xenial
** Tags added: verification-done-xenial
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Running 'unattended-upgrades --dry-run' reboots the machine
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