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. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com < sladen> I actually stayed in a hotel and arrived to find a post-it note stuck to the mini-bar saying "Paul: This fridge and fittings are the correct way around and do not need altering"