This bug was fixed in the package base-files - 11ubuntu5.2
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base-files (11ubuntu5.2) focal; urgency=medium
[ Andreas Hasenack ]
* motd/50-motd-news: don't include uptime in the user-agent string
(LP: #1886572)
* Move the /etc/default/motd-news conffile to the
This bug was fixed in the package base-files - 9.4ubuntu4.13
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base-files (9.4ubuntu4.13) xenial; urgency=medium
[ Andreas Hasenack ]
* motd/50-motd-news: don't include uptime in the user-agent string
(LP: #1886572)
* Move the /etc/default/motd-news conffile to the
This bug was fixed in the package base-files - 10.1ubuntu2.10
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base-files (10.1ubuntu2.10) bionic; urgency=medium
[ Andreas Hasenack ]
* motd/50-motd-news: don't include uptime in the user-agent string
(LP: #1886572)
* Move the /etc/default/motd-news conffile to the
** Tags removed: verification-needed
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Title:
motd-news: use wget instead of curl
To manage notifications about this bug go to:
Can you stop launching wget or curl as root? -- Please!
Launching a web crawler/browser such as wget or curl as super user root is a
bad design
specially if it runs in background without user consent and knowledge every 12h
on all
Ubuntu Desktop and Server based devices worldwide.
It does not
Xenial verification
Test (a)
Current base-files and curl installed (no ubuntu-server out-of-the-box on
xenial lxd images):
ii base-files 9.4ubuntu4.12 amd64Debian base system
miscellaneous files
ii curl 7.47.0-1ubuntu2.16 amd64command line tool for
Bionic verification
Test (a)
Current base-files, ubuntu-server and curl installed:
ii base-files 10.1ubuntu2.9 amd64Debian base system
miscellaneous files
ii curl 7.58.0-2ubuntu3.10 amd64command line tool for
transferring data with URL syntax
ii
Focal verification
Test (a)
Current base-files, ubuntu-server and curl installed:
ii base-files 11ubuntu5.1 amd64Debian base system
miscellaneous files
ii curl 7.68.0-1ubuntu2.2 amd64command line tool for
transferring data with URL syntax
ii ubuntu-server
Hello Andreas, or anyone else affected,
Accepted base-files into focal-proposed. The package will build now and
be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/base-
files/11ubuntu5.2 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.
Please help us by testing this new package. See
** Merge proposal linked:
https://code.launchpad.net/~ahasenack/ubuntu/+source/base-files/+git/base-files/+merge/389300
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Title:
motd-news:
** Description changed:
- The motd-news script is using curl, but since that is an optional
- package, there is no guarantee that it will be installed. The script
- correctly checks for its presence before trying to use it, though, so it
- won't fail. As we don't want to add such a dependency to
** Merge proposal linked:
https://code.launchpad.net/~ahasenack/ubuntu/+source/base-files/+git/base-files/+merge/388922
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Title:
motd-news:
** Merge proposal linked:
https://code.launchpad.net/~ahasenack/ubuntu/+source/base-files/+git/base-files/+merge/388848
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Title:
motd-news:
This was fixed for groovy in https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/base-
files/11ubuntu9
** Changed in: base-files (Ubuntu)
Status: In Progress => Fix Released
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