[Bug 1844704] Update Released

[Brian Murray]

The verification of the Stable Release Update for update-notifier has
completed successfully and the package is now being released to
-updates.  Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being
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the event that you encounter a regression using the package from
-updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report
regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.

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Title:
  Please make /var/lib/update-notifier/updates-available world readable

Status in update-notifier package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in update-notifier source package in Eoan:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  [Impact]

   * /var/lib/update-notifier/updates-available is not readable for regular users which prevents assembling MOTD with a regular user's rights.
  ug.
   * This prevents showing package information when the user is dropped to a regular user's shell in WSL.

  [Test Case]

   * The file should be world-readable
   $ sudo apt update
   $ ls -alh /var/lib/update-notifier/updates-available
   -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 83 Sep 19 15:29 /var/lib/update-notifier/updates-available

  [Regression Potential]

   * The fix is very simple, only a chmod command to leave the file
  world readable. Regressions are ulikely.

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