byobu causes PackageKit to flood journal with get-updates transaction

[theo]

I have noticed this unexpected behavior with byobu.
If running, the systemd journal is flooded with the following message:

PackageKit[4142]: get-updates transaction /157_ebecbabd from uid 1000 finished with success after 1ms

The transaction changes, but the rest remains the same.
It causes a message to be generated every second.

I think this is caused if byobu is set to check for available updates, as this behavior disappears if "available updates" in the status bar is disabled.

There appear to be bug reports regarding this, on secondary packages:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1980327
https://github.com/PackageKit/PackageKit/issues/322

System info:
byobu version 5.133
tmux 3.4

[Mitchell Dzurick (mitchdz)]

Thank you for making this bug report and making Ubuntu better theo!

I checked a few of my systems with Byobu and didn't notice this in my journalctl output. Are you using the default byobu settings, or is there a setting you changed?

[Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland)]

I just checked too, and I'm not seeing this either....

[Athos Ribeiro (athos-ribeiro)]

I am marking this as incomplete until we get further information about the reporter system (or, ideally, a reproducer for this one).

[theo (theodord)]

Hi mitchdz,

I only used the F1 Menu to customize my notification bar.
The issue only appears when updates_available is enabled.

However it seems I made a mistake in opening this bug report, since I am not using ubuntu but arch and as such the respective package from the arch repo.
There appears to be a bug report filed for the byobu package itself where this is addressed, however it has sat stale for almost 5 years now.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/byobu/+bug/1828115

I will mark this as duplicate.