Public bug reported: The unattended-upgrades package and the whole concept of upgrading software automatically behind user's back is HARMFUL and the service/timer should NOT be enabled by default.
It harms experience even for novice users with applications like Firefox preventing opening links until you restart it (which is terribad if you're in the middle of some work and don't want to do that at THAT particular moment!), and some other applications crashing in some cases, especially applications that run sub-processes interactively or on timers/cronjobs -- where updates to their libs or other dependencies create error states due to version/API/ABI mismatches. Please do not enable the service/timer by default and leave it to advanced users to enable assuming they understand the consequences. The same problem plagues snaps but that's a different bug report I suppose. ** Affects: unattended-upgrades (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: Confirmed ** Tags: bionic -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to unattended-upgrades in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1836328 Title: unattended-upgrades should not be enabled by default Status in unattended-upgrades package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: The unattended-upgrades package and the whole concept of upgrading software automatically behind user's back is HARMFUL and the service/timer should NOT be enabled by default. It harms experience even for novice users with applications like Firefox preventing opening links until you restart it (which is terribad if you're in the middle of some work and don't want to do that at THAT particular moment!), and some other applications crashing in some cases, especially applications that run sub-processes interactively or on timers/cronjobs -- where updates to their libs or other dependencies create error states due to version/API/ABI mismatches. Please do not enable the service/timer by default and leave it to advanced users to enable assuming they understand the consequences. The same problem plagues snaps but that's a different bug report I suppose. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unattended-upgrades/+bug/1836328/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp