Re: unattended-upgrades: defaults change to upgrade stable suite

[Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>]

Copying to release team:

On Thu 16 May 2019 at 05:03PM -07, Sean Whitton wrote:

> The version of unattended-upgrades in stretch defaulted to not upgrading
> the stable suite.  It would install only security updates.
>
> The version of unattended-upgrades in buster upgrades both the stable
> suite and security upgrades.  I.e. it will pull in point releases too.
>
> There are probably good reasons for this defaults change, but I think it
> needs to be documented, either in NEWS.Debian for unattended-upgrades,
> and/or (since the package is very widely installed) in the buster
> release notes.

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Sean Whitton