Bug#863859: apt: runs unattended-upgrades in debug mode
On Thu, Jun 01, 2017 at 07:50:40AM +0200, Raphaël Halimi wrote:
> Package: apt
> Version: 1.4.2
>
> Since a few days, my Stretch machine sends an additional daily e-mail
> with cron output from unattended-upgrades.
>
> It seems related to a change introduced in 1.4.2:
>
> * Run unattended-upgrade -d in download part
>
> ...which dates from May 04 according to the changelog, but hit Stretch
> only recently (on this machine apt was upgraded on May 27 according to
> apt logs).
lol, it was supposed to by --dry-run, so unattended-upgrade downloads
packages but does not install them. But apparently that's wrong too,
and does not do what it says in help.
> It would be nice to revert this change before Stretch is released.
It would have helped to have this report earlier - we are getting
awfully close to the release.
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