I just found the following comment on Soylent News:


https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=30051&page=1&cid=799766#commentwrap



> As of Debian 9 (Stretch) both the unattended-upgrades and
> apt-listchanges packages are installed by default and upgrades are
> enabled with the GNOME desktop. Rudimentary configuration is
> accessible via the "Software & Updates" application
> (software-properties-gtk).

> it's a Debian thing that depend on systemd to start at reboot


Sounds like something we don't want.

-- hendrik