Software updater snuck in a package that is unwanted

[Bret Busby]

On 18/10/2017, Colin Watson <cjwatson at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> 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
>

Thank you for that.

Just one point with the bug report; the bug report refers to only one
of the two packages involved (ubuntu-mate-core);

"
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  ubuntu-mate-core* ubuntu-mate-desktop* unattended-upgrades*
"

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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia

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