commit 5877bee20c58fda9111f8ef09eaefa0c4c2bbf92
Author: Fabio Fantoni <fantonifabio@tiscali.it>
Date: Tue Sep 29 20:38:45 2026 +0200
Move string formatting out of _() calls
Three messages were formatted before being passed to _(), so gettext
looked up the already formatted string and never found a translation.
"Unable to parse %s." is translated in 12 languages, but was always
logged in English. The same mistake was pointed out in the review of
#415.
Checked in a Debian 13 container with LANGUAGE=de and an Origins-Pattern
with an invalid placeholder: the log now says
"Unattended-Upgrade::Origins-Pattern kann nicht ausgewertet werden."
instead of the English message.
Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5-5
commit c5001e74f8344f3f89d05fcb93c89cf062f78c6d
Author: Fabio Fantoni <fantonifabio@tiscali.it>
Date: Mon Sep 28 20:25:45 2026 +0200
Fix --dry-run deleting the list of kept-back packages
In dry-run mode find_kept_packages() returns an empty list on purpose
("The list of kept packages can't be calculated in dry-run mode."), but
main() still hands that result to update_kept_pkgs_file(), which deletes
var/lib/unattended-upgrades/kept-back when the list is empty. A manual
"unattended-upgrade --dry-run" therefore wipes the list written by the
last real run.
That file feeds the motd snippet installed as
/etc/update-motd.d/92-unattended-upgrades, so after a dry-run the "N
updates could not be installed automatically" notice disappears until
the next real run. Dry-run is the usual way to check a configuration, so
this is easy to hit on a system where some updates are waiting for a
manual upgrade.
Skip the update in dry-run mode, as the summary mail and the plugins'
postrun() already are a few lines below.
The new test in test/test_motd.py runs main() in dry-run mode on the
root.untrusted tree with an existing kept-back file; without this fix
the file is gone afterwards.
Checked in a Debian 13 chroot with unattended-upgrades 2.12 from the
archive and one blacklisted package pending: after a real run kept-back
lists that package, the shipped version deletes the file on --dry-run,
the patched one leaves it in place, and a following real run writes the
same list again.
Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5-5
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