[Bug 1787460] Please test proposed package

Tue Mar 5 22:35:19 UTC 2019

Hello Dean, or anyone else affected,

Accepted apt into trusty-proposed. The package will build now and be
available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/1.0.1ubuntu2.21 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-trusty to verification-done-trusty. If it does not
fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the
tag to verification-failed-trusty. 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.

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Title:
  Unattended upgrades removed linux-image-generic

Status in apt package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in linux-meta package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in linux-meta-hwe package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in apt source package in Trusty:
  Fix Committed
Status in linux-meta source package in Trusty:
  New
Status in linux-meta-hwe source package in Trusty:
  New
Status in apt source package in Xenial:
  Fix Committed
Status in linux-meta source package in Xenial:
  New
Status in linux-meta-hwe source package in Xenial:
  New
Status in apt source package in Bionic:
  Fix Released
Status in linux-meta source package in Bionic:
  New
Status in linux-meta-hwe source package in Bionic:
  New
Status in apt source package in Cosmic:
  Fix Released
Status in linux-meta source package in Cosmic:
  New
Status in linux-meta-hwe source package in Cosmic:
  New
Status in apt source package in Disco:
  Fix Released
Status in linux-meta source package in Disco:
  Triaged
Status in linux-meta-hwe source package in Disco:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  [Impact]
  If a user accidentally removed linux-generic, unattended-upgrades will also autoremove linux-image-generic, leaving them without kernel upgrades.

  [Test Case]
  1. Remove all reverse dependencies of linux-image-generic
  2. Mark linux-image-generic as automatically installed
  3. Run unattended-upgrades -v --dry-run --debug to ensure that linux-image-generic is not removed (after verifying that it is, with old apt)

  [Regression potential]
  This adds two regular expressions to the list of packages that must not be automatically removed. As such, the only possible regression is that some packages starting with linux-image, not containing any dots, are not removed

  [Original bug report]
  On a fairly fresh install of 18.04 with no modifications whatsoever to the unattended-upgrades configuration, it decided to remove linux-image-generic which also removed linux-modules-extra which caused sound drivers to disappear, etc.

  The relative snippet from /var/log/unattended-upgrades/unattended-
  upgrades.log is:

  2018-08-15 06:18:00,048 INFO Starting unattended upgrades script
  2018-08-15 06:18:00,048 INFO Allowed origins are: o=Ubuntu,a=bionic, o=Ubuntu,a=bionic-security, o=UbuntuESM,a=bionic
  2018-08-15 06:18:01,552 INFO Removing unused kernel packages: linux-headers-generic linux-image-generic linux-headers-4.15.0-32-generic linux-headers-4.15.0-32
  2018-08-15 06:18:01,588 WARNING Keeping auto-removable linux-headers-generic package(s) because it would also remove the following packages which should be kept in this step: libxml2 linux-image-4.15.0-32-generic linux-modules-4.15.0-32-generic linux-modules-extra-4.15.0-32-generic
  2018-08-15 06:18:09,476 INFO Packages that were successfully auto-removed: linux-headers-4.15.0-32 linux-headers-4.15.0-32-generic linux-headers-generic linux-image-generic
  2018-08-15 06:18:09,477 INFO Packages that are kept back: linux-headers-generic
  2018-08-15 06:18:10,300 INFO Packages that will be upgraded: libxml2 linux-image-generic
  2018-08-15 06:18:10,300 INFO Writing dpkg log to /var/log/unattended-upgrades/unattended-upgrades-dpkg.log
  2018-08-15 06:18:39,238 INFO All upgrades installed
  2018-08-15 06:18:42,818 INFO Packages that were successfully auto-removed: linux-image-generic linux-modules-extra-4.15.0-32-generic
  2018-08-15 06:18:42,818 INFO Packages that are kept back:

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
  Package: unattended-upgrades 1.1ubuntu1.18.04.5
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-32.35-generic 4.15.18
  Uname: Linux 4.15.0-32-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair
  ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.3
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
  Date: Thu Aug 16 13:17:30 2018
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-07-24 (23 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180724)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: unattended-upgrades
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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