[adamrt]

You may already be familiar with but just in case: https://wiki.debian.org/UnattendedUpgrades

You can specify the types of updates to auto install (ie I use security updates only automatically).

[currysausage]

I keep running into a weird issue where my Debian servers won't shut down ("A start job is running for Unattended Upgrades") when I enable unattended upgrades as described at [1]. It is especially weird since my Debian systems are otherwise pretty bare-bones, yet the issue occurs on several of them. The solutions listed on Stack Exchange [2] seem rather hacky.

[1] https://wiki.debian.org/UnattendedUpgrades#automatic_call_vi...

[2] http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/293804/debian-a-star...

[voltagex_]

That's particularly nasty (and an aspect of systemd that I really don't like).

I'm not sure this has been reported before / correctly:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=837155 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=719597

Maybe give the maintainers a prod with a link to that thread?