[Whonix-devel] [qubes-devel] Why gets unattended-upgrades installed after Debian jessie -> Debian stretch upgrade?

[Chris Laprise]

On 02/06/2017 09:25 PM, Unman wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 06, 2017 at 01:19:00PM +0000, Patrick Schleizer wrote:
>> The unattended-upgrades was not installed on my Debian jessie system.
>> After upgrading to Debian stretch, the package unattended-upgrades got
>> installed. 'reverse-depends unattended-upgrades' [1] did not make me any
>> wiser. There must be a gap of my apt knowledge. Can anyone shed light on
>> this please?
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Patrick
>>
>> [1]
>> Reverse-Recommends
>> ==================
>> * education-common
>> * python3-software-properties
>>
>> Reverse-Depends
>> ===============
>> * parl-desktop
>> * plinth
>>
>> Packages without architectures listed are reverse-dependencies in:
>> amd64, arm64, armel, armhf, hurd-i386, i386, kfreebsd-amd64,
>> kfreebsd-i386, mips, mips64el, mipsel, powerpc, ppc64el, s390x
>>
> I remember a thread last year saying that unattended-upgrades should be
> installed by default, and enabled. I guess that is what you're seeing
> here Patrick.
> This was on debian-devel - I thought it related to d-i but it may be
> brought in as default package on dist-upgrade.
>
> have a look here:
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2016/11/msg00262.html
>

Unfortunately it clashes with template usage patterns... and probably 
not great for template-based VMs either.

Automatic updates would be better initiated from dom0, since the 
templates don't run on a regular basis and there are VM maintenance 
issues as well.

Chris