[Bug 1702793] Please test proposed package

[Łukasz Zemczak]

Hello Matt, or anyone else affected,

Accepted unattended-upgrades into xenial-proposed. The package will
build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source
/unattended-upgrades/1.1ubuntu1.18.04.7~16.04.1 in a few hours, and then
in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package.  See
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how
to enable and use -proposed.  Your feedback will aid us getting this
update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug,
mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from
verification-needed-xenial to verification-done-xenial. If it does not
fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the
tag to verification-failed-xenial. In either case, without details of
your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification .  Thank you in
advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s)
fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in
-proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Foundations Bugs, which is subscribed to unattended-upgrades in Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1702793

Title:
  Full backport SRU for unattended-upgrades

Status in unattended-upgrades package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in unattended-upgrades source package in Xenial:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  [Impact]

  * I would like to propose a one-off full backport of unattended-upgrades
  1.2ubuntu1 to Bionic, Artful, Xenial and possibly Trusty releases because selectively backporting fixes for crashes and for issues that made u-u unreliable would be more risky thanks to the huge number of fixes and the
  inter-dependencies between them.

  [Test Case]

  * Since this backport involves fixing several bugs and this bug itself
  covers the full backport this is an overview of all LP bugs the upload
  fixes:

  - most important bugs (feel free to add more)
     + LP: #1615381 : apt-get autoremove may remove current kernel

  All LP bugs fixed by the backport, comments are welcome:
     + LP: #1230246 could use SRU template but seems straightforward
     + LP: #1260041 SRU template ok
     + LP: #1396787 SRU template ok
     + LP: #1446552 SRU template ok
     + LP: #1455097 SRU template ok
     + LP: #1458204 could use SRU template but seems straightforward
     + LP: #1577215 could use SRU template but seems straightforward
     + LP: #1602536 SRU template ok
     + LP: #1615381 could use SRU template but seems straightforward
     + LP: #1624644 SRU template ok
     + LP: #1649709 not affecting xenial
     + LP: #1654070 could use SRU template but seems straightforward
     + LP: #1654600 SRU template ok
     + LP: #1675079 SRU template ok
     + LP: #1680599 could use SRU template but seems straightforward
     + LP: #1686470 SRU template ok
     + LP: #1690980 SRU template ok
     + LP: #1698159 SRU template ok
     + LP: #1702793 this bug
     + LP: #1714019 just a merge request
     + LP: #1718419 just a merge request
     + LP: #1719630 SRU template ok
     + LP: #1722426 just a merge request
     + LP: #1737442 SRU template ok
     + LP: #1737635 SRU template ok
     + LP: #1737637 SRU template ok
     + LP: #1737717 SRU template ok
     + LP: #1741579 SRU template ok
     + LP: #1764797 just a merge request
     + LP: #1773033 SRU template ok
     + LP: #1775292 SRU template ok
     + LP: #1775307 SRU template ok
     + LP: #1778219 SRU template ok
     + LP: #1778800 SRU template ok
     + LP: #1779157 SRU template ok
     + LP: #1781176 SRU template ok
     + LP: #1781183 SRU template ok
     + LP: #1781446 SRU template ok
     + LP: #1781586 SRU template ok
     + LP: #1785093 SRU template ok
     + LP: #1789637 SRU template ok
     + LP: #1803749 SRU template ok

  [Regression Potential]

  * Due to this update covering the full backport unattended-upgrades
  can regress in any imaginable way including failing to install,
  upgrade, run, or removing essential packages from the system. Those
  are unlikely.* There are open bugs about u-u being slower than in the
  past, thus this may be a likely regression but IMO the pending speed
  optimizations should not be blocking the backport because the
  reliability issues are more important to fix and speed optimizations
  can be cherry-picked later.

  [Other Info]

  I asked for an exception for the package in following the SRU process:
  https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-release/2018-May/004479.html

  I'm preparing the backport in ppa:rbalint/scratch and also run
  autopkgtests on it in addition to testing it manually in VMs.

  [Original Bug Text]

  Changes to support day-of-week patching and logging to syslog were
  added to upstream (https://github.com/mvo5/unattended-upgrades) over a
  year ago. These changes are not present in the latest Xenial nor
  Trusty packages (0.90 and 0.82.1) - requesting that these changes be
  pulled from upstream.

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unattended-upgrades/+bug/1702793/+subscriptions