Comment 6 for bug 1834226

In the updates tab, I keep all three boxes checked under "Install updates from:", because I like to manually run `sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade` whenever I have a good stable release of software and feel like stomaching a raft of system changes.

In past versions of ubuntu going back 'Dapper Drake', I'd change the setting for "automatically check for updates" and it was generally good about respecting this setting from my recollection. I'm not sure which release changed this but it's for sure worse, the updater tries to run in the background, and I've noticed it's easy to repeat as I've installed 19.04 on various machines. I've got laptops and desktops alike with 19.04 installed, and they all have this problem. I tried letting it actually do the updates, but that didn't work so I generally cancel it.

This non-deterministic behavior is nonsensical. When update-notifier runs, check this flag and quit if it's set to 'Never'. There's really nothing else to debug, is there?