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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unattended-upgrades should not be enabled by default
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