Xubuntu base requires installation of untrusted packages from
unauthenticated sources

Software updater today wanted to install a handful of updates under the
title "Xubuntu base". I told it to go ahead. It then gave the following
message:

"Software Updateer Requires Installation of untrusted packages.
This requires installation of untrusted packages from unauthenticated sources."

This suggested to me that I did not want to go ahead with the
installation. But the message window only allowed me to press <OK>.

This suggests a couple of potential errors:

- Software updater possibly using untrusted sources for standard packages?
- Software updater failing to inform user which packages are using untrusted 
sources, nor giving option for user to change offending source, or deselect 
offending package

I clicked OK. But it would not go ahead with the install. That is
actually a relief - most reassuring that Ubuntu has got my back. But it
could do a little more here: it can tell me which update and which
source is causing the problem and allow me to deselect it or follow some
other necessary course of action.

The following packages were in the update list:

Gobject-based wrapper library for libudev
Libgudev-1.0 introspection data
Libudev shared library
Systemd runtime services
Systemd utility library

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  [master] Untrusted packages can not be installed

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