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

[Robie Basak]

Now that unattended-upgrades defaults to installing security updates in
Xenial, I think this needs more attention. In mitigation, one can
disable unattended-upgrades without removing the package (dpkg-
reconfigure may work, but certainly hitting the files in
/etc/apt/apt.conf.d will) but I understand that one can get more
confidence by just purging a package that provides unwanted
functionality.

Unless there's a good reason that unattended-upgrades must be a
dependency. Can it be a Recommends instead, or perhaps be seeded as a
Recommends directly?

** Tags added: rls-x-incoming

** Changed in: software-properties (Ubuntu)
    Milestone: None => ubuntu-16.04

** Changed in: software-properties (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Triaged

** Changed in: software-properties (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => High

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Title:
  Dependency on package unattended-upgrades on Ubuntu Server

Status in software-properties package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

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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