** 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

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