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and subject line Re: Bug#1079048: unattended-upgrades: configuration ammendments
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: unattended-upgrades
Version: 2.9.1+nmu3
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: none, Dave Love <[email protected]>
The commented-out recipe for backports is wrong, confusing codename
and suite. I corrected that in the attached patch and added a codename
variant. I'm reporting against stable, but it's unchanged in the repo.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 12.6
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500,
'stable'), (100, 'bookworm-fasttrack'), (51, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 6.7.12+bpo-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages unattended-upgrades depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.82
ii lsb-release 12.0-1
ii python3 3.11.2-1+b1
ii python3-apt 2.6.0
ii python3-dbus 1.3.2-4+b1
ii python3-distro-info 1.5+deb12u1
ii sysvinit-utils [lsb-base] 3.06-4
ii ucf 3.0043+nmu1
ii xz-utils 5.4.1-0.2
Versions of packages unattended-upgrades recommends:
ii anacron 2.3-36
ii cron [cron-daemon] 3.0pl1-162
ii systemd-sysv 252.26-1~deb12u2
Versions of packages unattended-upgrades suggests:
ii bsd-mailx 8.1.2-0.20220412cvs-1
ii needrestart 3.6-4+deb12u1
ii postfix [mail-transport-agent] 3.7.11-0+deb12u1
ii powermgmt-base 1.37
ii python3-gi 3.42.2-3+b1
-- debconf information:
* unattended-upgrades/enable_auto_updates: true
diff --git a/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades b/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades
index 1036e10..899f3ce 100644
--- a/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades
+++ b/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ Unattended-Upgrade::Origins-Pattern {
"origin=Debian,codename=${distro_codename},label=Debian";
"origin=Debian,codename=${distro_codename},label=Debian-Security";
"origin=Debian,codename=${distro_codename}-security,label=Debian-Security";
+// "origin=Debian Backports,codename=${distro_codename}-backports,label=Debian Backports";
// Archive or Suite based matching:
// Note that this will silently match a different release after
@@ -39,7 +40,7 @@ Unattended-Upgrade::Origins-Pattern {
// "o=Debian,a=stable";
// "o=Debian,a=stable-updates";
// "o=Debian,a=proposed-updates";
-// "o=Debian Backports,a=${distro_codename}-backports,l=Debian Backports";
+// "o=Debian Backports,a=stable-backports,l=Debian Backports";
};
// Python regular expressions, matching packages to exclude from upgrading
--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message ---
Source: unattended-upgrades
Source-Version: 2.12
On Mon, Aug 19, 2024 at 10:48:23AM +0000, Dave Love wrote:
> Package: unattended-upgrades
> Version: 2.9.1+nmu3
> Severity: normal
> X-Debbugs-Cc: none, Dave Love <[email protected]>
>
> The commented-out recipe for backports is wrong, confusing codename
> and suite. I corrected that in the attached patch and added a codename
> variant. I'm reporting against stable, but it's unchanged in the repo.
> --- a/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades
> +++ b/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades
> @@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ Unattended-Upgrade::Origins-Pattern {
> "origin=Debian,codename=${distro_codename},label=Debian";
> "origin=Debian,codename=${distro_codename},label=Debian-Security";
>
> "origin=Debian,codename=${distro_codename}-security,label=Debian-Security";
> +// "origin=Debian
> Backports,codename=${distro_codename}-backports,label=Debian Backports";
[..]
This was done in 2.12, to close bug #940151.
--- End Message ---
