Re: APT 0.7 for sid

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

Michael Vogt wrote:
> unattended-upgrades comes with a default configuration that will only
> apply security updates (but it can be configured in any way people
> want) and it will do some careful checking to not upgrade packages
> that require manual intervention bia conffile prompts. It will also
> check that a security update does not bring in a new package from a
> non-security source, not break the cache and offer logging/mail of
> the changes to the administrator. It is designed to integrate nicely
> with update-notifier and the apt cronjob.

Unattended security upgrades are not supported; while we can typically fix
security problems w/o requiring manual user interaction, we cannot
guarantee it all cases. The user needs to read the DSA.

Cheers,
        Moritz