Adam Borowski writes: >> If not, what tool and with what options do you run to perform upgrades? > > apt-get -y dist-upgrade > According to the apt-get man page the `-y' option causes it to run non-interactively, and apt-listchanges has recently started honouring this setting, as requested in bug #687443. That's why it forces the "text" frontend and disables confirmation.
Is this explanation OK to you, may I close the bug report? Regards, robert