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. -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers oldoldstable APT policy: (500, 'oldoldstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.12.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
