Re: unattended-upgrades by default?

[Michael Vogt <mvo@debian.org>]

On Fri, Nov 04, 2016 at 03:38:38PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 2:47 AM, 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.
> 
> 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.

Thanks for this reminder Paul! #828215 is fixed in git and will be
part of the next upload (which should happy early next week).

Cheers,
 Michael