Debian Bug report logs - #863859
apt: runs unattended-upgrades in debug mode

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

From: Raphaël Halimi <raphael.halimi@gmail.com>

To: Debian BTS <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: apt: runs unattended-upgrades in debug mode

Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2017 07:50:40 +0200

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Package: apt
Version: 1.4.2

Since a few days, my Stretch machine sends an additional daily e-mail
with cron output from unattended-upgrades.

It seems related to a change introduced in 1.4.2:

* Run unattended-upgrade -d in download part

...which dates from May 04 according to the changelog, but hit Stretch
only recently (on this machine apt was upgraded on May 27 according to
apt logs).

This is really annoying. Cron jobs are not supposed to output anything
unless there was an error. Now i receive three daily e-mails regarding
unattended upgrades: one from apt-listchanges (ok), one from
unattended-upgrades itself (ok, I enabled this in the config myself),
and one from anacron (not ok, if the upgrade ran without error, cron
shouldn't report anything).

It would be nice to revert this change before Stretch is released.

Regards,

-- 
Raphaël Halimi

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Message #8 received at 863859-submitter@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Julian Andres Klode <jak@debian.org>

To: 863859-submitter@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#863859 in apt marked as pending

Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2017 06:26:17 +0000

Control: tag 863859 pending

Hello,

Bug #863859 in apt reported by you has been fixed in the Git repository. You can
see the commit message below, and you can check the diff of the fix at:

    https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/apt/apt.git/diff/?id=31c81a3

(this message was generated automatically based on the git commit message)
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commit 31c81a37ac6dceda0c94ce088b338b6b09afd5a4
Author: Julian Andres Klode <jak@debian.org>
Date:   Thu Jun 1 08:24:12 2017 +0200

    apt.systemd.daily: Pass --dry-run to unattended-upgrade, not -d
    
    We want to download stuff:
      --dry-run             Simulation, download but do not install
    not debug:
      -d, --debug           print debug messages
    
    Confusion everywhere!
    
    Closes: #863859

Message #15 received at 863859@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Julian Andres Klode <jak@debian.org>

To: Raphaël Halimi <raphael.halimi@gmail.com>, 863859@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#863859: apt: runs unattended-upgrades in debug mode

Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2017 08:39:44 +0200

On Thu, Jun 01, 2017 at 07:50:40AM +0200, Raphaël Halimi wrote:
> Package: apt
> Version: 1.4.2
> 
> Since a few days, my Stretch machine sends an additional daily e-mail
> with cron output from unattended-upgrades.
> 
> It seems related to a change introduced in 1.4.2:
> 
> * Run unattended-upgrade -d in download part
> 
> ...which dates from May 04 according to the changelog, but hit Stretch
> only recently (on this machine apt was upgraded on May 27 according to
> apt logs).

lol, it was supposed to by --dry-run, so unattended-upgrade downloads
packages but does not install them. But apparently that's wrong too,
and does not do what it says in help.

> It would be nice to revert this change before Stretch is released.

It would have helped to have this report earlier - we are getting
awfully close to the release.
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Message #20 received at 863859@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Raphaël Halimi <raphael.halimi@gmail.com>

To: Julian Andres Klode <jak@debian.org>, 863859@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#863859: apt: runs unattended-upgrades in debug mode

Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2017 09:02:55 +0200

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Le 01/06/2017 à 08:39, Julian Andres Klode a écrit :
> lol, it was supposed to by --dry-run, so unattended-upgrade downloads
> packages but does not install them. But apparently that's wrong too,
> and does not do what it says in help.

You probably mistook with apt-get's -d which stands for download-only :)

>> It would be nice to revert this change before Stretch is released.
> 
> It would have helped to have this report earlier - we are getting
> awfully close to the release.

I know, sorry, my Sid box doesn't have unattended-upgrades enabled, so I
was hit by the bug only on May 29th (according to apt logs, the first
run with -d) :/

Could a minor update with only this change cherry-picked still be
possible ? It really would be a pain to have this additional daily
e-mail on all machines where unattended-upgrades is enabled...

Regards,

-- 
Raphaël Halimi

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Message #25 received at 863859@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Julian Andres Klode <jak@debian.org>

To: Raphaël Halimi <raphael.halimi@gmail.com>

Cc: 863859@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#863859: apt: runs unattended-upgrades in debug mode

Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2017 09:21:35 +0200

On Thu, Jun 01, 2017 at 09:02:55AM +0200, Raphaël Halimi wrote:
> Le 01/06/2017 à 08:39, Julian Andres Klode a écrit :
> > lol, it was supposed to by --dry-run, so unattended-upgrade downloads
> > packages but does not install them. But apparently that's wrong too,
> > and does not do what it says in help.
> 
> You probably mistook with apt-get's -d which stands for download-only :)

Yes.

> 
> >> It would be nice to revert this change before Stretch is released.
> > 
> > It would have helped to have this report earlier - we are getting
> > awfully close to the release.
> 
> I know, sorry, my Sid box doesn't have unattended-upgrades enabled, so I
> was hit by the bug only on May 29th (according to apt logs, the first
> run with -d) :/
> 
> Could a minor update with only this change cherry-picked still be
> possible ? It really would be a pain to have this additional daily
> e-mail on all machines where unattended-upgrades is enabled...

I now pushed a second commit that basically just checks if u-u
supports a --download-only option and uses that if available. u-u
does not support that option yet, but this way we can add it later
on (the previous dry-run commit was wrong too, it did some dpkg
debug logging...).

Anyhow, I think that's a reasonable thing to fix for the release.

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Message #30 received at 863859-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Julian Andres Klode <jak@debian.org>

To: 863859-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#863859: fixed in apt 1.4.6

Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2017 09:18:34 +0000

Source: apt
Source-Version: 1.4.6

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
apt, 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 863859@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Julian Andres Klode <jak@debian.org> (supplier of updated apt package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2017 10:50:26 +0200
Source: apt
Binary: apt libapt-pkg5.0 libapt-inst2.0 apt-doc libapt-pkg-dev libapt-pkg-doc apt-utils apt-transport-https
Architecture: source
Version: 1.4.6
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: APT Development Team <deity@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Julian Andres Klode <jak@debian.org>
Description:
 apt        - commandline package manager
 apt-doc    - documentation for APT
 apt-transport-https - https download transport for APT
 apt-utils  - package management related utility programs
 libapt-inst2.0 - deb package format runtime library
 libapt-pkg-dev - development files for APT's libapt-pkg and libapt-inst
 libapt-pkg-doc - documentation for APT development
 libapt-pkg5.0 - package management runtime library
Closes: 863859
Changes:
 apt (1.4.6) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * apt.systemd.daily: Do not pass -d to unattended-upgrade for the download
   job. This actually enables debugging. Instead check if unattended-upgrade
   supports an option --download-only (which is yet to be implemented) and use
   that (Closes: #863859)
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