unattended-upgrades should not be enabled by default
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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unattended-upgrades (Debian) |
Won't Fix
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Unknown
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unattended-upgrades (Ubuntu) |
Won't Fix
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
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.
Changed in unattended-upgrades (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → Won't Fix |
Changed in unattended-upgrades (Debian): | |
status: | Unknown → Won't Fix |
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.