Added the upstream bug report. The workaround seems to work fine: I just put "APT::NeverRemove { "dpkg"; };" into a new file "/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99autoremovebug" and then did a "sudo apt-get autoremove" which removed a bunch of packages.
Added the upstream bug report. The workaround seems to work fine: I just put "APT::NeverRemove { "dpkg"; };" into a new file "/etc/apt/ apt.conf. d/99autoremoveb ug" and then did a "sudo apt-get autoremove" which removed a bunch of packages.