Package: apt Version: 3.0.3 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected] A minimal Debian installation does not run apt update periodically, although there are mechanisms to enable it via apt-daily.service.
I was hit by this since I know I have apt-daily enabled, but I was surprised that the apt update is disabled by default. Specially for people running some minimal image or a container this might useful. I guess that under some desktop environment the update of the packages happens under the hood, but that also seems to be not universal, since for xfce I do not get the updates. Maybe this could be reconsidered and periodic apt update enabled? Or if that is too much maybe it can be documented in the wiki. A simple mechanism would be to add the following in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10periodic: APT::Periodic::Enable "1"; APT::Periodic::Update-Package-Lists "1"; This is kind of documented in the Administrator handbook: https://debian-handbook.info/browse/stable/sect.regular-upgrades.html but maybe it would be more accesible in the Debian wiki? Maybe also a man page on apt.systemd.daily? Thanks! -- Package-specific info: -- (no /etc/apt/preferences present) -- -- (no /etc/apt/preferences.d/* present) -- -- (no /etc/apt/sources.list present) -- -- (/etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.sources present, but not submitted) -- -- (/etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list present, but not submitted) -- -- System Information: Debian Release: 13.4 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 6.12.74+deb13+1-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=es_ES.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_ES.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=es_ES:es Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages apt depends on: ii adduser 3.152 ii base-passwd 3.6.7 ii debian-archive-keyring 2025.1 ii libapt-pkg7.0 3.0.3 ii libc6 2.41-12+deb13u2 ii libgcc-s1 14.2.0-19 ii libseccomp2 2.6.0-2 ii libssl3t64 3.5.5-1~deb13u1 ii libstdc++6 14.2.0-19 ii libsystemd0 257.9-1~deb13u1 ii sqv 1.3.0-3+b2 Versions of packages apt recommends: ii ca-certificates 20250419 Versions of packages apt suggests: pn apt-doc <none> ii dpkg-dev 1.22.22 ii gnupg 2.4.7-21+deb13u1 ii powermgmt-base 1.38 ii synaptic 0.91.7 -- no debconf information
