The unattended-upgrades should be disabled by default.
From the debian wiki (also applies to ubuntu base here)
Is this configured that way on your system ?
Can you also make sure that mintUpdate isn't upgrading those packages. It should have an autoupgrade also available in its settings.
From the debian wiki (also applies to ubuntu base here)
Quote:To activate unattended-upgrades, you need to ensure that the apt configuration stub /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20auto-upgrades contains at least the following lines:
Code:APT::Periodic::Update-Package-Lists "1";
APT::Periodic::Unattended-Upgrade "1";
Is this configured that way on your system ?
Can you also make sure that mintUpdate isn't upgrading those packages. It should have an autoupgrade also available in its settings.