Package: unattended-upgrades Version: 1.9 Severity: minor When receiving email notifications from "unattended-upgrades", it would be nice if they only included relevant information.
Getting 20 lines of "(Reading database ... X%)" with X ranging from "" to "100%" in steps of 5%, * for * each * package * installed *[1], is quite some noise that could be removed from the output. Thanks a lot for considering that! Ad 1: Yes, I know - Unattended-Upgrade::MinimalSteps. But that's a feature and by design! -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_AT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_AT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=de_AT:de (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages unattended-upgrades depends on: ii apt 1.8.0~alpha3 ii apt-utils 1.8.0~alpha3 ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.69 ii init-system-helpers 1.56+nmu1 ii lsb-base 10.2018112800 ii lsb-release 10.2018112800 ii python3 3.7.1-3 ii python3-apt 1.7.0 ii python3-dbus 1.2.8-2+b3 pn python3-distro-info <none> ii ucf 3.0038+nmu1 ii xz-utils 5.2.2-1.3 Versions of packages unattended-upgrades recommends: ii anacron 2.3-27 ii cron [cron-daemon] 3.0pl1-130 ii systemd-sysv 240-2 Versions of packages unattended-upgrades suggests: ii bsd-mailx 8.1.2-0.20180807cvs-1 ii needrestart 3.3-2 ii postfix [mail-transport-agent] 3.3.2-1 ii powermgmt-base 1.33 ii python3-gi 3.30.4-1 --