Misleading login message from unattended-upgrades

[Bill Miller]

A recent update to unattended-upgrades causes messages to be displayed at login similar to this: "1 updates could not be installed automatically. For more details,see /var/log/unattended-upgrades/unattended-upgrades.log"

However, when the user has pinned/held a package, this is expected behavior, and should not cause a warning or error. Additionally, in this case, the the logfile that the user is directed to reference contains no useful information.

Either the message should not be issued for pinned packages (preferred) or the logfile that the user is directed to reference should contain useful information.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: unattended-upgrades 1.1ubuntu1.18.04.13
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.0.0-37.40~18.04.1-generic 5.0.21
Uname: Linux 5.0.0-37-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.9
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: LXDE
Date: Mon Dec 23 07:16:09 2019
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-08-27 (1213 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 16.04.1 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160720)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: unattended-upgrades
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to bionic on 2018-08-04 (505 days ago)
modified.conffile..etc.apt.apt.conf.d.10periodic:
 APT::Periodic::Update-Package-Lists "1";
 APT::Periodic::Download-Upgradeable-Packages "1";
 APT::Periodic::AutocleanInterval "0";
 APT::Periodic::Unattended-Upgrade "1";
mtime.conffile..etc.apt.apt.conf.d.10periodic: 2017-08-18T18:55:52.439072

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.