[Bug 1834226] [NEW] update-notifier doesn't respect "automatically check for updates: Never"

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This has been a long-standing problem with various ubuntu installations,
and I'm sensing some reticence in doing anything about it. This attitude
also seems to be purposeful to try to cajole updates on people who make
bad choices due to confusion/fud/paranoia.

apt install fails due to:

E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to acquire the dpkg frontend lock (/var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend), is another process using it?

A great deal of networking is taking place despite setting automatic
upgrades to "never". Cycling this doesn't seem to do anything. This
action is hostile to programmers and the setting should be respected.

Wisdom on threads is to let it update until it's out of updates, and
then it supposedly respects the "never" flag, but the experience I'm
having is much more non-deterministic. have been using 19.04 for weeks
now and still get the background notifier using data and getting in the
way of aptitude package installations. I prefer manual update && upgrade
once my code is ready to push.

Is there another way around this or are people just living with it?

** Affects: update-notifier (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: bot-comment
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update-notifier doesn't respect "automatically check for updates: Never"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1834226
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