Change unattended-upgrades from Depends to Recommends on ubuntu-server-minimal

[Matthew Ruffell]

Hi everyone.

I was testing Jammy and happened to notice that unattended-upgrades Depends on
ubuntu-server-minimal, and when removing unattended-upgrades,
ubuntu-server-minimal is removed along with it:

$ sudo apt remove unattended-upgrades
...
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  ubuntu-server-minimal unattended-upgrades
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

$ sudo apt rdepends unattended-upgrades
unattended-upgrades
Reverse Depends:
  Recommends: python3-software-properties
  Recommends: ubuntu-mate-desktop
  Recommends: ubuntu-mate-core
  Depends: freedombox
  Recommends: fbx-all
  Depends: ubuntu-server-minimal

Should unattended-upgrades be changed from Depends to Recommends for
ubuntu-server-minimal?

It is very common for our larger users to remove unattended-upgrades so they can
manage their systems patching manually.

I filed a bug against ubuntu-meta:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-meta/+bug/1954724

I was in the process of making a debdiff, and I happened to notice that
unattended-upgrades is only in the server-minimal-$ARCH files only:

$ grep -Rin "unattended-upgrades" .
./server-minimal-armhf:23:unattended-upgrades
./server-minimal-riscv64:23:unattended-upgrades
./server-minimal-arm64:23:unattended-upgrades
./server-minimal-ppc64el:23:unattended-upgrades
./server-minimal-s390x:24:unattended-upgrades
./server-minimal-amd64:23:unattended-upgrades

When I also ran the ./update script in ubuntu-meta, it automatically repopulated
server-minimal-$ARCH with unattended-upgrades again, so it seems I am missing
something to do with dependency magic in the archive.

Thanks,
Matthew