Bug#875858: pkgsel: Offer to install/manage unattended-upgrades
On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 11:45:13AM +0200, Raphaël Hertzog wrote:
>Source: pkgsel
>Version: 0.45
>Severity: wishlist
>
>Ubuntu has a patch adding a "pkgsel/update-policy" debconf question which
>is used to control the installation of unattended-upgrades. I want to
>merge this into Debian.
>
>The biggest question in this work is the default value and priority of
>the question.
>
>Ubuntu defaults to "none" (no automatic installation) but asks the
>question at high priority on netboot (non-cdrom) images or on their
>server images.
>
>For Debian, I don't think that making such a difference makes sense.
>We should:
>- either always show the question with its default value of "none"
> (thus making sure that they have a chance to opt-in to this feature)
>- or not show the question (priority "medium") but make it default
> to install unattended-upgrades so that they get updates by default but
> have a chance to disable that with preseeding
>
>Given the last discussion on -devel
>(https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2016/11/threads.html#00117) I think
>we should make a bold choice and do the latter.
>
>I'm going to submit a tested patch later on.
Sounds reasonable, yes.
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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@einval.com
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