Comment 2 for bug 1724499

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Alkis Georgopoulos (alkisg) wrote :

The unattended-upgrades package breaks a lot of use cases. Please allow people to uninstall it.

Just remove it completely from Depends/Recommends, it will be pulled in the live CD and in installations anyway in the same way that ubuntu-desktop does it, indirectly via software-properties-gtk:

http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/germinate-output/ubuntu.bionic/all
unattended-upgrades | python3-software-properties (Recommends)

...while in Ubuntu MATE currently it is:
http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/germinate-output/ubuntu-mate.bionic/all
unattended-upgrades | Ubuntu-Mate.Bionic core seed