Your message dated Tue, 25 Sep 2012 09:31:23 +0200
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has caused the Debian Bug report #683664,
regarding apt-dater-host creates network traffic w/o asking by modifying apt's
Download-Upgradeable-Packages
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Package: apt-dater-host
Version: 0.9.0-3
Severity: normal
apt-dater-host includes a config file
(/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99apt-dater-host_periodic) that
* enables automatic package list updates,
* makes apt download upgradable packages automatically, and
* cleans up old packages periodically.
this is an imo relatively grave interference with another package's
operation, and comes completely unexpected and undocumented. in
practice, it costs people money if they are on pay-per-volume lines like
cell phone internet -- apt is simply not expected to automatically
operate unless configured otherwise, and there's no reason to assume
installing apt-dater-host would modify that behavior, as it is just a
program invoked by apt-dater.
in other words: updates using apt-dater are just as manual as updates
using apt-get -- more centralized, but still manual. having everything
pre-downloaded is convenient to the apt-dater user, but no more than to
the apt-get user, and it is with reason that apt normally doesn't
auto-download.
please remove that automation, or make it a debconf option defaulting to
off.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.4-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages apt-dater-host depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.45
ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.26+b1
ii libimvirt-perl 0.9.4-2
ii lsb-release 4.1+Debian7
ii openssh-server 1:6.0p1-2
ii perl 5.14.2-12
Versions of packages apt-dater-host recommends:
ii imvirt 0.9.4-2
ii sudo 1.8.5p2-1
apt-dater-host suggests no packages.
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/sudoers.d/apt-dater-host [Errno 13] Permission denied:
u'/etc/sudoers.d/apt-dater-host'
-- debconf information:
* apt-dater-host/assume_yes: true
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tags #683664 + wontfix
Closing, since this could be configured in a configuration file.
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