Artful: unattended-upgrades ... dpkg-vendor: not found

[Balint Reczey]

Hi Frans,

On 2017-09-25 16:13, Frans van Berckel wrote:
> Dear Devel Team,
>
> I am just running my daily update and upgrade.
>
> # apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
>
> Installing the packages goes well, except for, getting this warning.
>
> Setting up unattended-upgrades (0.97ubuntu1) ...
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/unattended-upgrades.postinst: 65:
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/unattended-upgrades.postinst: dpkg-vendor: not found
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/unattended-upgrades.postinst: 66:
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/unattended-upgrades.postinst: dpkg-vendor: not found
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/unattended-upgrades.postinst: 124:
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/unattended-upgrades.postinst: dpkg-vendor: not found
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/unattended-upgrades.postinst: 125:
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/unattended-upgrades.postinst: dpkg-vendor: not found
>
> True, dpkg-vendor is part of the dpkg-dev package. Which isn't
> installed by default, with the Artful Gnome Desktop.

This is now fixed in 0.97ubuntu2, please see:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unattended-upgrades/+bug/1719630

Thanks,

Balint