Comment 11 for bug 2017401

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote :

There has been a discussion between the several engineering teams involved regarding a path forward on this bug. It's acknowledged that this is a regression which breaks the statement of user intent expressed by setting the Unattended-Upgrade::Automatic-Reboot option. However, this is an uncommon configuration (if you are configuring your system to automatically reboot on kernel upgrade, you are getting very little value out of livepatch on top of that since in the common case the kernel deb is made available to the system before the corresponding livepatch) so most users are not expected to be using both in combination. And we have agreed that we should be getting richer information from canonical-livepatch about the security bug coverage of available livepatches vs kernel debs that will allow a more nuanced decision about whether to tell the user a reboot is required. This work is planned for the 24.04 development cycle and we believe will cover this regression as well; so a targeted fix for this issue is not currently a priority.