Public bug reported:
The unattended-upgrades package and the whole concept of upgrading
software automatically behind user's back is HARMFUL and the
service/timer should NOT be enabled by default.
It harms experience even for novice users with applications like Firefox
preventing opening links until you restart it (which is terribad if
you're in the middle of some work and don't want to do that at THAT
particular moment!), and some other applications crashing in some cases,
especially applications that run sub-processes interactively or on
timers/cronjobs -- where updates to their libs or other dependencies
create error states due to version/API/ABI mismatches.
Please do not enable the service/timer by default and leave it to
advanced users to enable assuming they understand the consequences.
The same problem plagues snaps but that's a different bug report I
suppose.
** Affects: unattended-upgrades (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: Confirmed
** Tags: bionic
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1836328
Title:
unattended-upgrades should not be enabled by default
Status in unattended-upgrades package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
The unattended-upgrades package and the whole concept of upgrading
software automatically behind user's back is HARMFUL and the
service/timer should NOT be enabled by default.
It harms experience even for novice users with applications like
Firefox preventing opening links until you restart it (which is
terribad if you're in the middle of some work and don't want to do
that at THAT particular moment!), and some other applications crashing
in some cases, especially applications that run sub-processes
interactively or on timers/cronjobs -- where updates to their libs or
other dependencies create error states due to version/API/ABI
mismatches.
Please do not enable the service/timer by default and leave it to
advanced users to enable assuming they understand the consequences.
The same problem plagues snaps but that's a different bug report I
suppose.
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