On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 03:27:58PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 11:45:13AM +0200, Raphaël Hertzog wrote: > >Source: pkgsel > >Version: 0.45 > >Severity: wishlist > > > >Ubuntu has a patch adding a "pkgsel/update-policy" debconf question which > >is used to control the installation of unattended-upgrades. I want to > >merge this into Debian. > > > >The biggest question in this work is the default value and priority of > >the question. > > > >Ubuntu defaults to "none" (no automatic installation) but asks the > >question at high priority on netboot (non-cdrom) images or on their > >server images. > > > >For Debian, I don't think that making such a difference makes sense. > >We should: > >- either always show the question with its default value of "none" > > (thus making sure that they have a chance to opt-in to this feature) > >- or not show the question (priority "medium") but make it default > > to install unattended-upgrades so that they get updates by default but > > have a chance to disable that with preseeding > > > >Given the last discussion on -devel > >(https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2016/11/threads.html#00117) I think > >we should make a bold choice and do the latter. > > > >I'm going to submit a tested patch later on. > > Sounds reasonable, yes.
I don't think so. This is not an adequate default for non-Desktop setups, this should rather be pulled in via some of the desktop tasksel tasks, but not in general. Cheers, Moritz