[Bug 1582015] [NEW] Moving the daily apt timeout after the APT::Periodic::Enable check

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Public bug reported:

I'm using Ubuntu 16.10 dev with apt 1.3~exp1 and I'm noticing that
/etc/cron.daily/apt-compat does set the random timeout and keeping the
related processes that time open before the check for
APT::Periodic::Enable is done in /usr/lib/apt/apt.systemd.daily. Since
the timeout exists to prevent all the users to stress the servers at the
same time but an user might have disabled the periodic job with
APT::Periodic::Enable I think it would be better if setting the timeout
would be moved from /etc/cron.daily/apt-compat to
/usr/lib/apt/apt.systemd.daily at a suitable place somewhere after the
APT::Periodic::Enable check.

** Affects: apt (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  Moving the daily apt timeout after the APT::Periodic::Enable check

Status in apt package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I'm using Ubuntu 16.10 dev with apt 1.3~exp1 and I'm noticing that
  /etc/cron.daily/apt-compat does set the random timeout and keeping the
  related processes that time open before the check for
  APT::Periodic::Enable is done in /usr/lib/apt/apt.systemd.daily. Since
  the timeout exists to prevent all the users to stress the servers at
  the same time but an user might have disabled the periodic job with
  APT::Periodic::Enable I think it would be better if setting the
  timeout would be moved from /etc/cron.daily/apt-compat to
  /usr/lib/apt/apt.systemd.daily at a suitable place somewhere after the
  APT::Periodic::Enable check.

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