Public bug reported:
unattended-upgrades overrides the setting of APT_LISTCHANGES_FRONTEND.
per the comments, this was done at a time when apt-listchanges would
"always send a mail if there is a mail address set in the config
regardless of the frontend used." this is no longer the case and this
(now unnecessary) local override of APT_LISTCHANGES_FRONTEND can cause
confusion when apt-listchanges appears to ignore its configured
settings.
What I expected to happen:
i expected apt-listchanges to conform to its configuration. setting the
"none" frontend in /etc/apt/listchanges.conf should ensure it "Does
nothing" as per the manpage.
What happened instead:
unattended-upgrades does not respect the frontend setting, essentially
now replicating the bad behavior this snippet was originally meant to
workaround (i.e., mail is currently sent when email_address is set but
frontend=none). with the attached patch the frontend specified in
listchanges.conf is no longer unnecessarily overridden.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: unattended-upgrades 0.90
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-31.50-generic 4.4.13
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-31-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Oct 13 07:07:44 2016
JournalErrors:
-- Logs begin at Tue 2016-10-11 08:02:03 PDT, end at Thu 2016-10-13 07:06:49
PDT. --
Oct 11 08:13:30 hostname systemd-tmpfiles[10524]:
[/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/var.conf:14] Duplicate line for path "/var/log", ignoring.
Oct 12 08:13:50 hostname systemd-tmpfiles[25099]:
[/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/var.conf:14] Duplicate line for path "/var/log", ignoring.
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
TERM=rxvt-unicode-256color
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/zsh
SourcePackage: unattended-upgrades
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
** Affects: unattended-upgrades (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug xenial
** Patch added: "remove the APT_LISTCHANGES_FRONTEND override"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1633098/+attachment/4760432/+files/unattended-upgrade_APT_LISTCHANGES_FRONTEND.patch
** Description changed:
unattended-upgrades overrides the setting of APT_LISTCHANGES_FRONTEND.
per the comments, this was done at a time when apt-listchanges would
"always send a mail if there is a mail address set in the config
regardless of the frontend used." this is no longer the case and this
(now unnecessary) local override of APT_LISTCHANGES_FRONTEND can cause
confusion when apt-listchanges appears to ignore its configured
settings.
What I expected to happen:
i expected apt-listchanges to conform to its configuration. setting the
"none" frontend in /etc/apt/listchanges.conf should ensure it "Does
nothing" as per the manpage.
What happened instead:
unattended-upgrades does not respect the frontend setting, essentially
now replicating the bad behavior this snippet was originally meant to
- workaround. with the attached patch the frontend specified in
+ workaround (i.e., mail is currently sent when email_address is set but
+ frontend=none). with the attached patch the frontend specified in
listchanges.conf is no longer unnecessarily overridden.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: unattended-upgrades 0.90
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-31.50-generic 4.4.13
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-31-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Oct 13 07:07:44 2016
JournalErrors:
- -- Logs begin at Tue 2016-10-11 08:02:03 PDT, end at Thu 2016-10-13 07:06:49
PDT. --
- Oct 11 08:13:30 hostname systemd-tmpfiles[10524]:
[/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/var.conf:14] Duplicate line for path "/var/log", ignoring.
- Oct 12 08:13:50 hostname systemd-tmpfiles[25099]:
[/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/var.conf:14] Duplicate line for path "/var/log", ignoring.
+ -- Logs begin at Tue 2016-10-11 08:02:03 PDT, end at Thu 2016-10-13 07:06:49
PDT. --
+ Oct 11 08:13:30 hostname systemd-tmpfiles[10524]:
[/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/var.conf:14] Duplicate line for path "/var/log", ignoring.
+ Oct 12 08:13:50 hostname systemd-tmpfiles[25099]:
[/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/var.conf:14] Duplicate line for path "/var/log", ignoring.
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
- TERM=rxvt-unicode-256color
- PATH=(custom, no user)
- XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
- LANG=en_US.UTF-8
- SHELL=/bin/zsh
+ TERM=rxvt-unicode-256color
+ PATH=(custom, no user)
+ XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
+ LANG=en_US.UTF-8
+ SHELL=/bin/zsh
SourcePackage: unattended-upgrades
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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override of APT_LISTCHANGES_FRONTEND can/should be removed
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