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Re: unattended-upgrade still tracking Bookworm after upgrading to Trixie



Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> writes:

> On Thu, Aug 14, 2025 at 11:10 PM Xiyue Deng <manphiz@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> So I have a laptop that recently upgraded from Bookworm to Trixie
>> without issues.  Only that, unlike my other box (which also upgraded
>> from Bookworm to Trixie and has a working unattended-upgrade), I found
>> that all recent security updates are not upgraded automatically here.
>> It turns out that unattended-upgrade seems to still be tracking
>> Bookworm.  However /etc/debian_version is already at 13.0 like my other
>> box.  Here are some debugging output from unattended-upgrade:
>>
>> ,----
>> | $ sudo unattended-upgrade --verbose --apt-debug --dry-run
>> | Starting unattended upgrades script
>> | Allowed origins are: origin=Debian,codename=bookworm,label=Debian,
>> origin=Debian,codename=bookworm,label=Debian-Security,
>> origin=Debian,codename=bookworm-security,label=Debian-Security
>> | Initial blacklist:
>> | Initial whitelist (not strict):
>> | No packages found that can be upgraded unattended and no pending
>> auto-removals
>> | The list of kept packages can't be calculated in dry-run mode.
>> `----
>>
>> /etc/debian_version:
>>
>> ,----
>> | $ cat /etc/debian_version
>> | 13.0
>> `----
>>
>> All unattended-upgrade configurations are unchanged and should be the
>> same as the ones in /usr/share/unattended-upgrade
>
>
> Is the machine that is not tracking Trixie using Gnome? It looks like Gnome
> is a special case for unattended-upgrades. From <
> https://wiki.debian.org/UnattendedUpgrades>:
>
>     In Debian 12 (Bookworm) unattended-upgrades is no longer a default
>     install with Gnome. Download and upgrade schedules are set up by
>     Packagekit using systemd timers on installation. The default behaviour
>     in Gnome for upgrades detected via APT is now to advise of
>     availability, and not to install by default.
>
> And then the wiki page goes on to say:
>
>     To install these packages, run the following command as root:
>
>         # apt-get install unattended-upgrades apt-listchanges
>
>     The default configuration file for the unattended-upgrades package is
>     at /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades. Any local customizations
>     should be in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/52unattended-upgrades-local (see
>     package README for details).
>
>         # $EDITOR /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/52unattended-upgrades-local
>

Thanks for the info.  It's an old machine so I only installed LXQt with
window manager from xfce, and I do have both unattended-upgrades and
apt-listchanges installed.  But it's good info to know in case I install
Gnome in the future.

> Jeff

-- 
Regards,
Xiyue Deng

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