Bug#875858: pkgsel: Offer to install/manage unattended-upgrades

[Moritz Mühlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

retitle 875858 Revert default installation of unattended-upgrades
thanks

[Resending since the earlier unarchive wasn't effective yet, so the
 followup got lost]

Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 04, 2018 at 01:31:25PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> > OK, putting team@security in copy now. I would like to hear the opinion of
> > other team members.
> 
> We've discussed this at the Security Team sprint and we don't want to
> see this enabled by default.
> 
> > For the actual decision of reverting this default value, IMO we should
> > wait until later in the buster cycle, just to see if your concerns about
> > unattended-upgrades are fixed and to see how this works out in practice
> > (although the lack of security updates for testing makes it a bit
> > pointless as an experiment).
> 
> That's pointless until testing becomes stable and by then it's too
> late, this needs to be disabled now.