I recognize it is difficult to confirm bugs relating to update checking,
because (1) they're dependent on updates from a repository you don't
control, (2) the steps often involve waiting for days, and (3) we've
never had a specification for exactly how they should behave. It would
be super-awesome if someone could write a test harness to solve #1 and
#2, with a dummy updates repository that you can configure to advertise
a particular kind of update at a particular time, combined with
temporarily setting your computer's clock forward to test whatever the
next step is. Meanwhile, solving #3 is my responsibility, and I've
started writing a specification
<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareUpdateHandling>, but it needs a lot of
detail yet.

Paddy, thanks for clarifying your problem. Do you know for sure that
security updates are being auto-installed on your computer? If they are,
then the bugs ceg and Konstantin are seeing are both different from
yours and should be reported separately.

Here's a test case to start off with:
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1. Install Ubuntu 10.04.
2. Log in to the new Ubuntu installation for the first time.
3. In "Software Sources" > "Updates", choose "Check for updates: Daily" and 
"Install security updates without confirmation".
4. Set the system clock forward one day.
5. Wait for ten minutes.

What should happen: Update Manager opens, displaying only non-security updates.
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If that's not what actually happens, please replace the current description 
with this, plus a line for what actually happens. Then this report will be 
ready for an engineer.

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security updates not installed daily as configured
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/549217
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