[Bug 1875644] [NEW] motd-news complains that curl is missing

[Simon Déziel]

Public bug reported:

Description:

motd-news complains that curl is missing on every run. motd-news.timer
firing every ~12 hours, this useless message ends up in the logs
regularly.

Steps to reproduce:

$ lxc launch images:ubuntu/focal motd
Creating motd
Starting motd
$ lxc exec motd -- /etc/update-motd.d/50-motd-news --force
dpkg-query: no packages found matching curl

This should output nothing.

Additional information:

# lsb_release -rd
Description:	Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
Release:	20.04

# apt-cache policy base-files
base-files:
  Installed: 11ubuntu5
  Candidate: 11ubuntu5
  Version table:
 *** 11ubuntu5 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

** Affects: base-files (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  motd-news complains that curl is missing

Status in base-files package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Description:

  motd-news complains that curl is missing on every run. motd-news.timer
  firing every ~12 hours, this useless message ends up in the logs
  regularly.

  Steps to reproduce:

  $ lxc launch images:ubuntu/focal motd
  Creating motd
  Starting motd
  $ lxc exec motd -- /etc/update-motd.d/50-motd-news --force
  dpkg-query: no packages found matching curl

  This should output nothing.

  Additional information:

  # lsb_release -rd
  Description:	Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
  Release:	20.04

  # apt-cache policy base-files
  base-files:
    Installed: 11ubuntu5
    Candidate: 11ubuntu5
    Version table:
   *** 11ubuntu5 500
          500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/main amd64 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

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