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Re: unattended-upgrades by default?



Hi there!,

On Fri, 04 Nov 2016 12:26:51 +0100, Guido Günther wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 03, 2016 at 06:47:28PM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> > To solve the issue and provide security updates by default, I'm
> > proposing that we should switch to installing unattended-upgrades by
> > default (and enabling it too) *unless* something else in the
> > installation is already expected to deal with security updates.
> 
> Please do.

I still think that a non-manual upgrade (i.e. an upgrade which has not
been checked by a manual process, which means that a scripted upgrade is
not part of it) should not be a default on any OS, but it seems I am the
only one thinking like this...

> We should also enable needsrestart, whatmaps, checkrestart or
> similar to restart affected services after these upgrades otherwise the
> e.g. openssl update might go without effect until openssh, bind,
> <younameit> get restarted manually or rebooted.

Should not we recycle how the debpkg:libc6 handles affected-debpkgs or,
better, should not we unify libc6 behavior with the tools Guido
suggested?

Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca

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