** Description changed: + [Impact] + + * I would like to propose a one-off full backport of unattended-upgrades + 1.2ubuntu1 to Bionic, Artful, Xenial and possibly Trusty releases because selectively backporting fixes for crashes and for issues that made u-u unreliable would be more risky thanks to the huge number of fixes and the + inter-dependencies between them. + + [Test Case] + + * Since this backport involves fixing several bugs and this bug itself covers the full backport I suggest that this bug should be considered verified when the following list of bugs are verified: + - TODO add most important bugs + and the following tests are passing: + - TODO add tests not covered by bugs above + + [Regression Potential] + + * Due to this update covering the full backport unattended-upgrades can regress in any imaginable way including failing to install, upgrade, run, or removing essential packages from the system. Those are unlikely. + * There are open bugs about u-u being slower than in the past, thus this may be a likely regression but IMO the pending speed optimizations should not be blocking the backport because the reliability issues are more important to fix and speed optimizations can be cherry-picked later. + + [Other Info] + + I asked for an exception for the package in following the SRU process: + https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-release/2018-May/004479.html + + I'm preparing the backport in ppa:rbalint/scratch and also run + autopkgtests on it in addition to testing it manually in VMs. + + [Original Bug Text] + Changes to support day-of-week patching and logging to syslog were added to upstream (https://github.com/mvo5/unattended-upgrades) over a year ago. These changes are not present in the latest Xenial nor Trusty packages (0.90 and 0.82.1) - requesting that these changes be pulled from upstream.
** Summary changed: - SRU changes from upstream + Full backport SRU for unattended-upgrades -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to unattended-upgrades in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1702793 Title: Full backport SRU for unattended-upgrades Status in unattended-upgrades package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: [Impact] * I would like to propose a one-off full backport of unattended-upgrades 1.2ubuntu1 to Bionic, Artful, Xenial and possibly Trusty releases because selectively backporting fixes for crashes and for issues that made u-u unreliable would be more risky thanks to the huge number of fixes and the inter-dependencies between them. [Test Case] * Since this backport involves fixing several bugs and this bug itself covers the full backport I suggest that this bug should be considered verified when the following list of bugs are verified: - TODO add most important bugs and the following tests are passing: - TODO add tests not covered by bugs above [Regression Potential] * Due to this update covering the full backport unattended-upgrades can regress in any imaginable way including failing to install, upgrade, run, or removing essential packages from the system. Those are unlikely. * There are open bugs about u-u being slower than in the past, thus this may be a likely regression but IMO the pending speed optimizations should not be blocking the backport because the reliability issues are more important to fix and speed optimizations can be cherry-picked later. [Other Info] I asked for an exception for the package in following the SRU process: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-release/2018-May/004479.html I'm preparing the backport in ppa:rbalint/scratch and also run autopkgtests on it in addition to testing it manually in VMs. [Original Bug Text] Changes to support day-of-week patching and logging to syslog were added to upstream (https://github.com/mvo5/unattended-upgrades) over a year ago. These changes are not present in the latest Xenial nor Trusty packages (0.90 and 0.82.1) - requesting that these changes be pulled from upstream. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unattended-upgrades/+bug/1702793/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
