[Bug 831487] Re: Dependency on package unattended-upgrades on Ubuntu Server

[Will Bryant]

This affects me too; we had some servers end up with a full boot
partition because kernels got installed after we added python-software-
properties on 12.04 to configure PPAs.

I don't see what this software  has to do with unattended upgrades.  We
should remove the dependency IMHO.

Do the maintainers agree?

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Title:
  Dependency on package unattended-upgrades on Ubuntu Server

Status in “software-properties” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  The package, which includes the always-useful add-apt-repository,
  depends on package unattended-upgrades. This is not good on servers,
  as you may want to add PPAs with the convenience of add-apt-repository
  but still want to control everything that gets upgraded on the
  machine.

  Tested on both Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and 11.04.

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