Debian considering automated upgrades

I've used the cron-apt package for maybe 10 years now. With the -d flag removed so that it installed upgrades rather than just downloading. On lots of servers and desktop machines.

Mix together with https://packages.debian.org/jessie-backports/reboot-notifier and I know when I need to reboot. (makesure cron can send email)

[ I've always meant to write a script to do overnight reboots based on reboot-notifier, but I just haven't done it yet ]

It just works. I'd rather be secure and have a 30 second overnight outage every few months.

For a few absolutely critical servers, I do updates manually.

The needrestart package described is good, but it really doesn't work well with unattended upgrades.