Debian Bug report logs - #707055
should not ask debconf question whether to enable

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: should not ask debconf question whether to enable

Date: Fri, 03 May 2013 11:04:55 +0200

Package: unattended-upgrades
Version: 0.79.5
Severity: normal

Hi,

On a Debian system, I run:

  root@flowsel:~# apt-get install unattended-upgrades

I then get a debconf question:

  "Automatically download and install stable updates?"

which defaults to No.

This seems awkward and unnecessary hoop jumping to me. Why would I be
installing the package when I didn't want any unattended-upgrades?
And furthermore, why would this question default to false? The mere
fact of me requesting its installation seems enough expression of
my desire for unattended upgrades, or I wouldn't be installing it.

It's de facto policy within Debian that if you install something,
it will be enabled. For example, if you install a daemon it will be
started. Debian Policy also states that any prompting should be kept
to a minimum required.


Cheers,
Thijs

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (400, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=nl_NL.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=nl_NL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages unattended-upgrades depends on:
ii  apt                    0.9.7.8
ii  apt-utils              0.9.7.8
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.49
ii  lsb-base               4.1+Debian8
ii  lsb-release            4.1+Debian8
ii  python                 2.7.3-4
ii  python-apt             0.8.8.2
ii  ucf                    3.0025+nmu3
ii  xz-utils               5.1.1alpha+20120614-2

unattended-upgrades recommends no packages.

Versions of packages unattended-upgrades suggests:
ii  bsd-mailx                       8.1.2-0.20111106cvs-1
ii  postfix [mail-transport-agent]  2.9.6-2

-- debconf information:
* unattended-upgrades/enable_auto_updates: true

Message #10 received at 707055-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Michael Vogt <mvo@debian.org>

To: 707055-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#707055: fixed in unattended-upgrades 0.90

Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 22:42:23 +0000

Source: unattended-upgrades
Source-Version: 0.90

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
unattended-upgrades, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 707055@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Michael Vogt <mvo@debian.org> (supplier of updated unattended-upgrades package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
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Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 14:05:58 -0800
Source: unattended-upgrades
Binary: unattended-upgrades
Architecture: source all
Version: 0.90
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Michael Vogt <mvo@debian.org>
Changed-By: Michael Vogt <mvo@debian.org>
Description:
 unattended-upgrades - automatic installation of security upgrades
Closes: 707055
Changes:
 unattended-upgrades (0.90) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   [ Alexandre Detiste ]
   * tweak a bit the French translations
 .
   [ Michael Vogt ]
   * debian/templates: set unattended-upgrades/enable_auto_updates to
     "true" (Closes: #707055)
   * debian/config: set debconf questions about origin/enable to low
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