Public bug reported: There was a somewhat acrimonious thread on ubuntu-users@ recently due to unattended-upgrades being marked as a dependency of the ubuntu-mate-core metapackage, starting at:
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu- users/2017-October/291825.html Despite the intemperate language there, I think it's reasonable to say that unattended-upgrades doesn't quite meet the usual threshold for being marked as a dependency of the core metapackage: it does make sense to have it there by default, but the system will function fine without it if somebody has special requirements. I suggest some variant of this patch to the seeds: === modified file 'core' --- core 2017-10-08 21:25:51 +0000 +++ core 2017-10-18 08:56:20 +0000 @@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ We use gnupg's pinentry support as of wi * (sessioninstaller) * software-properties-gtk * ubuntu-release-upgrader-gtk - * unattended-upgrades + * (unattended-upgrades) * update-manager * update-notifier * (whoopsie) ** Affects: ubuntu-mate-meta (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1724499 Title: unattended-upgrades should probably be Recommends, not Depends To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-mate-meta/+bug/1724499/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
