Control: reassign -1 apt 1.6~alpha7 Control: tags -1 confirmed 2018-02-14 16:20 GMT+07:00 Ralf Jung <p...@ralfj.de>: > Package: unattended-upgrades > Version: 0.98 > Severity: normal > > Dear Maintainer, > > I just had roughly 20% of my monthly data volume (aka 100 MByte) used up > within > minutes because this package decided to do `apt update` while I am connected > via > Bluetooth and my mobile phone. Lucky enough I noticed this while the update > as > still going and before my data was completely used up. I am not sure why the > download was so big, maybe it already started downloading the .deb files? > > I did not even know that this package was installed; it came in via > dependencies > and recommendations from Gnome. The end-result us unacceptable behavior: > Using > the Gnome desktop in the default configuration results in huge downloads being > performed over metered connections without any way for the user to know, let > alone abort the download.
I agree metered connections should be detected and downloads should be fixed but u-u is started by apt's timers, hence the issue should be fixed in apt. Thanks for the bug report! Cheers, Balint
