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Bug#668305: apt: Silently installed cron job deletes files (despite comments to the contrary)



Hello Julian,
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 10:36:45PM +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 10:30:38PM +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> > Package: apt
> > Version: 0.8.15.10
> > Severity: important
> > 
> > This machine was installed last year and is running testing since. For
> > a time, I was wondering why /var/cache/apt/archives was not growing as
> > it did on other (older) machines. After searching I finally nailed it
> > down to 
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14918 Jun 30  2011 /etc/cron.daily/apt
> > 
> > (I removed the executable bit to verify that it was indeed the cause).
> > Ever since I did this, no longer files are deleted.
> > 
> > I never touched this file and /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/02periodic does not
> > exist on my system. According to the comments, nothing should be
> > deleted automatically:
> 
> Do you have unattended-upgrades or update-notifier-common installed?

rc  unattended-upgrades                          0.74.3
automatic installation of security upgrades
ii  update-notifier-common                       0.99.3debian10
Files shared between update-notifier and adept

I haven't investigated them, though and did not manually install them,
probably installed as part of a task during d-i.

And thanks for the *ultra fast* reply, probably the fastest I ever
experienced for a bug report.

(And I'm going offline now, but don't hesitate to ask further
questions, I'll answer tomorrow evening)

            Helge
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