On 30-06-17, David Wright wrote: > > I'm not sure what this is all about; unattended-upgrades appears > to have been maintained by the same person since the days of etch, > a decade ago. What constitutes an advertisement, and how is the > question posed as to whether updates are automatic or not? > > Cheers, > David. >
Probably because unattended-upgrades were not pulled in before automatically on install of Debian. In Stretch, through some added recommends, they are installed by default on at least Gnome and KDE tasks.