Auto update script (/etc/cron.daily/apt) references wrong configuration file

[Gerald Hopf]

In /etc/cron.daily/apt, the first few lines tell you how to configure automatic updates:

# This file understands the following apt configuration variables:
# Values here are the default.
# Create /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/02periodic file to set your preference.

This is however completely wrong, since the correct filename (installed for example by the update-notifier-common package) is actually 10periodic! 10periodic is also the file mentioned on the Wiki pages on how to set up automatic updates: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AutomaticSecurityUpdates

Please don't cause unneccessary confusion by referencing to a file that is at least FIVE YEARS (see http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1940284 - someone complaining about this weirdness in 2009) out of date.

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[Julian Andres Klode (juliank)]

I committed a fix for this upstream in the debian/experimental branch, which will likely be part of Ubuntu 16.04.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package apt - 1.1.4

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apt (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Julian Andres Klode ]
  * defaults.mak: Set LC_COLLATE=C.UTF-8 for reproducible sort order
  * Avoid overflow when summing up file sizes

  [ David Kalnischkies ]
  * add a apt breaks (apt-utils << 1.1.3) for partial-upgrades (Closes: 806765)
  * require explicit paths to dsc/control as we do for deb files
    (Closes: 806693)
  * use @CHANGEPATH@ as placeholder in changelog URI templates
  * replace "which" with "command -v" for portability.
    Thanks to Mingye Wang for the suggestion. (Closes: 807144)
  * replace run-parts with find|sort to avoid debianutils usage
  * part revert, part redo 'which' replacement.
    Thanks to Jakub Wilk for pointing out #747320

  [ Fredrik Fornwall ]
  * apt-helper.cc: include <stdlib.h> for atoi (Closes: 807031)

 -- Julian Andres Klode <email address hidden> Mon, 07 Dec 2015 15:31:31 +0100