Package: unattended-upgrades Version: 1.4 Severity: serious Recently I have had unattended-upgrades upgrade random packages from testing to experimental. If I downgrade the packages upgraded, I won't get the same packages upgraded the next day. I run apt-show-versions daily and save the output to my mail store. Using my mail store I found that the first instance of this happening was on 2018-07-06, there were earlier instances but they were from me manually installing packages from experimental and u-u doing subsequent upgrades. I noticed that I upgraded unattended-upgrades on that date from 1.3 to 1.4. I'm not sure, but the changelog indicates some package candidate changes, perhaps this caused the issue? I think this bug should be fixed before Debian releases buster, this could break some setups.
$ notmuch search --output files --format text0 subject:apt-show-versions AND experimental | xargs -0 grep -Zl ^+.*/experimental | xargs -0 grep ^Date: grep: /home/pabs/mail/cur/1533911695.H364727P6217.chianamo:2,: No such file or directory /home/pabs/mail/.archives.chianamo/cur/1533738479.H931450P19950.chianamo:2,S:Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2018 22:27:59 +0800 /home/pabs/mail/.archives.chianamo/cur/1533452480.H469089P20113.chianamo:2,S:Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2018 15:01:20 +0800 /home/pabs/mail/.archives.chianamo/cur/1532469048.H39195P10262.chianamo:2,S:Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2018 05:50:47 +0800 /home/pabs/mail/.archives.chianamo/cur/1532009473.H904807P26370.chianamo:2,S:Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2018 22:11:13 +0800 /home/pabs/mail/.archives.chianamo/cur/1531406466.H36620P31910.chianamo:2,S:Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2018 22:41:05 +0800 /home/pabs/mail/.archives.chianamo/cur/1531318643.H907159P2397.chianamo:2,S:Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2018 22:17:23 +0800 /home/pabs/mail/.archives.chianamo/cur/1531231937.H239897P6579.chianamo:2,S:Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2018 22:12:17 +0800 /home/pabs/mail/.archives.chianamo/cur/1531145728.H178673P15461.chianamo:2,S:Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2018 22:15:28 +0800 /home/pabs/mail/.archives.chianamo/cur/1530973747.H830435P12225.chianamo:2,S:Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2018 22:29:07 +0800 /home/pabs/mail/.archives.chianamo/cur/1530887497.H217865P26358.chianamo:2,S:Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2018 22:31:36 +0800 /home/pabs/mail/.archives.chianamo/cur/1528812402.H467547P3507.chianamo:2,S:Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2018 22:06:42 +0800 /home/pabs/mail/.archives.chianamo/cur/1528121929.H964004P25155.chianamo:2,S:Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2018 22:18:49 +0800 /home/pabs/mail/.archives.chianamo/cur/1527948341.H185749P9358.chianamo:2,S:Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2018 22:05:41 +0800 /home/pabs/mail/.archives.chianamo/cur/1527863815.H640051P20918.chianamo:2,S:Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2018 22:36:55 +0800 ... $ which-pkg-broke unattended-upgrades | grep -C3 'Jul *6' libpython3.6-stdlib:amd64 Sun Jul 1 13:07:11 2018 python3.6-minimal Sun Jul 1 13:07:14 2018 libpython3.6-minimal:amd64 Sun Jul 1 13:07:19 2018 unattended-upgrades Fri Jul 6 21:03:10 2018 install-info Sat Jul 7 12:22:43 2018 libapt-pkg5.0:amd64 Mon Jul 16 15:38:37 2018 libapt-inst2.0:amd64 Mon Jul 16 15:38:43 2018 $ zgrep -B2 -A1 unattended-upgrades /var/log/apt/history.log.1.gz Start-Date: 2018-07-06 21:03:00 Requested-By: pabs (1000) Upgrade: unattended-upgrades:amd64 (1.3, 1.4) End-Date: 2018-07-06 21:03:21 unattended-upgrades (1.4) unstable; urgency=medium ... * Adjust candidates only for packages to be possibly installed (Closes: #892028, #899366) (LP: #1396787) -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers testing-debug APT policy: (900, 'testing-debug'), (900, 'testing'), (800, 'unstable-debug'), (800, 'unstable'), (790, 'buildd-unstable'), (700, 'experimental-debug'), (700, 'experimental'), (690, 'buildd-experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.17.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_AU.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_AU.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages unattended-upgrades depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.69 ii gir1.2-glib-2.0 1.56.1-1 ii lsb-base 9.20170808 ii lsb-release 9.20170808 ii powermgmt-base 1.33 ii python3 3.6.5-3 ii python3-apt 1.6.2 ii python3-gi 3.28.2-1+b1 ii ucf 3.0038 ii xz-utils 5.2.2-1.3 Versions of packages unattended-upgrades recommends: ii anacron 2.3-24 ii cron [cron-daemon] 3.0pl1-130 Versions of packages unattended-upgrades suggests: ii bsd-mailx 8.1.2-0.20160123cvs-4 ii exim4-daemon-light [mail-transport-agent] 4.91-6 ii needrestart 3.3-1 -- debconf information: * unattended-upgrades/enable_auto_updates: true * unattended-upgrades/origins_pattern: "origin=Debian"; -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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