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Re: unattended-upgrades by default?



On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 2:47 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote:

>  * it will be a different experience compared to what people will get
>    when installing Debian normally, using d-i / debootstrap.

That should be fixed in d-i IMO.

> 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.

I think that would be acceptable once the fix for #828215 is uploaded.
Until then, enabling unattended-upgrades is a minor but guaranteed
data loss: upgraded automatically installed packages are set to
manually installed.

-- 
bye,
pabs

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