Documented package defaults are incorrect

[Lee Azzarello]

The file /etc/cron.daily/apt contains comments describing the default values
for various package configuration options. Including a comment: "Create
/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/02periodic file to set your preference", though there
already exists a defaults file on my system at /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10periodic.
This file was created automaticaly, I assume by this package since it was
installed on the base system. I did not install unattended-updates manually.
This made the system apply security updates by default, in turn updating the
kernel, which broke my production system on reboot since it did not update some
dependent kernel modules required for operation.

I think a more sane default would be to require the admin to manually configure
the system for unattended updates, especially in the case of a server, of which
my issue applies.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: unattended-upgrades 0.79.3ubuntu7
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-35.50-generic 3.8.13.13
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-35-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8.5
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Jan 6 15:09:56 2014
Ec2AMI: ami-68335458
Ec2AMIManifest: (unknown)
Ec2AvailabilityZone: us-west-2c
Ec2InstanceType: m3.xlarge
Ec2Kernel: aki-fc37bacc
Ec2Ramdisk: unavailable
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: unattended-upgrades
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-10-09 (89 days ago)

[Jörg Frings-Fürst (jff-de)]

Hi Lee,

During the installation, you can select whether automatic updates are to be performed.

See for example: http://www.thomas-krenn.com/de/wikiDE/images/a/a5/Ubuntu-12.04-LTS-Server-Installation-32-Configure-tasksel.png

So I close this bug.