Public bug reported: On Impish and later, removing unattended-upgrades also removes ubuntu- server-minimal due to ubuntu-server-minimal depending on unattended- upgrades
$ sudo apt remove unattended-upgrades ... The following packages will be REMOVED: ubuntu-server-minimal unattended-upgrades 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded. This behaviour has changed since ubuntu-meta 1.471 [1] when the ubuntu- server-minimal metapackage was introduced, declaring unattended-upgrades as Depends. [1] https://launchpadlibrarian.net/550345392/ubuntu- meta_1.470_1.471.diff.gz On Focal, there was no such behaviour on a fresh ubuntu-server install: $ sudo apt remove unattended-upgrades ... The following packages will be REMOVED: unattended-upgrades 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 9 not upgraded. Removing unattended-upgrades is quite popular amongst our users, and they should be allowed to remove the package without removing the ubuntu-server-minimal metapackage. Looking at the source package for ubuntu-meta, unattended-upgrades is only Depends for ubuntu-server-minimal, maybe we should simply remove it? $ grep -Rin "unattended-upgrades" . ./server-minimal-armhf:23:unattended-upgrades ./server-minimal-riscv64:23:unattended-upgrades ./server-minimal-arm64:23:unattended-upgrades ./server-minimal-ppc64el:23:unattended-upgrades ./server-minimal-s390x:24:unattended-upgrades ./server-minimal-amd64:23:unattended-upgrades $ sudo apt rdepends unattended-upgrades unattended-upgrades Reverse Depends: Recommends: python3-software-properties Recommends: ubuntu-mate-desktop Recommends: ubuntu-mate-core Depends: freedombox Recommends: fbx-all Depends: ubuntu-server-minimal ** Affects: ubuntu-meta (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Affects: ubuntu-meta (Ubuntu Impish) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Affects: ubuntu-meta (Ubuntu Jammy) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: ubuntu-meta (Ubuntu Jammy) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: ubuntu-meta (Ubuntu Impish) 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/1954724 Title: Removing unattended-upgrades removes ubuntu-server-minimal To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-meta/+bug/1954724/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
