[Whonix-devel] [qubes-devel] Why gets unattended-upgrades installed after Debian jessie -> Debian stretch upgrade?

Tue Feb 7 03:25:12 CET 2017

On Mon, Feb 06, 2017 at 01:19:00PM +0000, Patrick Schleizer wrote:
> The unattended-upgrades was not installed on my Debian jessie system.
> After upgrading to Debian stretch, the package unattended-upgrades got
> installed. 'reverse-depends unattended-upgrades' [1] did not make me any
> wiser. There must be a gap of my apt knowledge. Can anyone shed light on
> this please?
> 
> Best regards,
> Patrick
> 
> [1]
> Reverse-Recommends
> ==================
> * education-common
> * python3-software-properties
> 
> Reverse-Depends
> ===============
> * parl-desktop
> * plinth
> 
> Packages without architectures listed are reverse-dependencies in:
> amd64, arm64, armel, armhf, hurd-i386, i386, kfreebsd-amd64,
> kfreebsd-i386, mips, mips64el, mipsel, powerpc, ppc64el, s390x
> 

I remember a thread last year saying that unattended-upgrades should be
installed by default, and enabled. I guess that is what you're seeing
here Patrick.
This was on debian-devel - I thought it related to d-i but it may be
brought in as default package on dist-upgrade.

have a look here:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2016/11/msg00262.html