Package: unattended-upgrades
Version: 2.12
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
X-Debbugs-Cc: Santiago Vila <[email protected]>
Dear Michael, Santiago, et al,
data/50unattended-upgrades.Debian is outdated and has the following
problems:
* #767208 - Misleading comment in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=767208
* #1111238 - Macro ${distro_codename} is probably not derived from
/etc/debian_version:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1111238
* component example omits non-free-firmware
* codename examples use jessie and buster
* grammar can be improved
These are all fixed in the attached patch.
Similar fixes might need to be made to the other
data/50unattended-upgrades files.
Thank you!
Daniel Lewart
Urbana, Illinois
diff -ru a/data/50unattended-upgrades.Debian b/data/50unattended-upgrades.Debian
--- a/data/50unattended-upgrades.Debian 2025-01-01 11:22:25.000000000 -0600
+++ b/data/50unattended-upgrades.Debian 2025-09-16 00:00:00.000000000 -0500
@@ -7,19 +7,19 @@
// keywords are wild cards.) The keywords originate from the Release
// file, but several aliases are accepted. The accepted keywords are:
// a,archive,suite (eg, "stable")
-// c,component (eg, "main", "contrib", "non-free")
+// c,component (eg, "main", "contrib", "non-free-firmware", "non-free")
// l,label (eg, "Debian", "Debian-Security")
// o,origin (eg, "Debian", "Unofficial Multimedia Packages")
-// n,codename (eg, "jessie", "jessie-updates")
-// site (eg, "http.debian.net")
+// n,codename (eg, "trixie", "trixie-security", "trixie-updates")
+// site (eg, "deb.debian.org")
// The available values on the system are printed by the command
// "apt-cache policy", and can be debugged by running
// "unattended-upgrades -d" and looking at the log file.
//
-// Within lines unattended-upgrades allows 2 macros whose values are
-// derived from /etc/debian_version:
+// Within lines unattended-upgrades allows two macros whose values are
+// derived from /etc/os-release or /usr/lib/os-release:
// ${distro_id} Installed origin.
-// ${distro_codename} Installed codename (eg, "buster")
+// ${distro_codename} Installed codename (eg, "trixie")
Unattended-Upgrade::Origins-Pattern {
// Codename based matching:
// This will follow the migration of a release through different
@@ -65,8 +65,8 @@
// https://docs.python.org/3/howto/regex.html
};
-// This option allows you to control if on a unclean dpkg exit
-// unattended-upgrades will automatically run
+// This option allows you to control if unattended-upgrades will
+// automatically run on an unclean dpkg exit
// dpkg --force-confold --configure -a
// The default is true, to ensure updates keep getting installed
//Unattended-Upgrade::AutoFixInterruptedDpkg "true";
