Software updater snuck in a package that is unwanted

[Colin Watson]

On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 04:13:47PM -0400, Paul Smith wrote:
> On Wed, 2017-10-18 at 03:11 +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
> > Prithee explain why, if the ubuntu-mate packages have a dependency on
> > the trojan package, they work quite well, when that trojan package is
> > NOT installed
> 
> Just because the people who created the ubuntu-mate package declared,
> in their package definition, that it depends on unattended-upgrades
> does NOT mean that the desktop won't work at all without it.

I think it's probably a bug in the metapackages that this is declared as
a dependency rather than as a recommendation; it seems like a package
that should be installed by default but easy to remove by users with
more specialised requirements, which is what recommendations are for.
I've filed a bug about this:

  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-mate-meta/+bug/1724499

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]