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** Also affects: unattended-upgrades (Ubuntu Bionic)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Also affects: unattended-upgrades (Ubuntu Xenial)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Also affects: unattended-upgrades (Ubuntu Eoan)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Also affects: unattended-upgrades (Ubuntu Disco)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: unattended-upgrades (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Fix Released

** Changed in: unattended-upgrades (Ubuntu Disco)
       Status: New => Fix Released

** Changed in: unattended-upgrades (Ubuntu Eoan)
       Status: New => Fix Released

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Title:
  [SRU] Unattended-upgrades silently does not apply updates when
  MinimalSteps is disabled and there are autoremovable kernels

Status in unattended-upgrades package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in unattended-upgrades source package in Xenial:
  New
Status in unattended-upgrades source package in Bionic:
  New
Status in unattended-upgrades source package in Disco:
  Fix Released
Status in unattended-upgrades source package in Eoan:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  [Impact]

   * When autoremovable kernel packages are present on the system, there are updates to apply and Unattended-Upgrade::MinimalSteps is set to "false", the autoremovable kernel packages are not removed and the updates are not applied.
   * The root cause is u-u not cleaning the dirty cache between operations and also relying on having a cache with packages marked to be installed when applying updates in one shot.
   * The fix is clearing the cache between operations and marking packages before installing them in one shot.

  [Test Case]

   * Install kernel-related packages, mark them as automatically installed to make them auto-removable ones.
   * Downgrade a few packages to a version lower than what is present in the security pocket.
   * Set Unattended-Upgrade::MinimalSteps to "false":
     # echo 'Unattended-Upgrade::MinimalSteps "false";' > /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/51unattended-upgrades-oneshot

   * Run u-u:
     # unattended-upgrade --verbose --debug

   * Observe fixed versions removing the kernel packages properly and
  also upgrading packages.

  [Regression Potential]

   * The changes introduce marking packages to install/upgrade and clearing the cache more often. The added operations slow down u-u, but clearing the cache adds a few 100 milliseconds on typical hardware and marking upgradable packages is also in the same range.
   * Functional regressions are unlikely due to those changes since the fixes are present in 19.04 and later releases and the extensive autopkgtest also covers when upgrades are performed in minimal steps.

  [Other Info]

   * While this bug has a security impact by holding back installation of security updates I don't recommend releasing the fix via the security pocket because this bug occurs only when the local configuration file of u-u is changed and u-u does not hold back upgrades with UCF-managed config file conflicts.
    See: https://github.com/mvo5/unattended-upgrades/issues/168

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