Comment 7 for bug 1439769

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote : Re: [Bug 1439769] Re: various linux packages being marked as manually installed, still prevents 'apt-get autoremove' from doing the right thing for kernels

On Tue, Jul 07, 2015 at 02:37:07PM -0000, Tyler Dinsmoor wrote:
> The reasons to why old kernels are not intentionally being marked for
> autoremoval (as of 2008-11-04) is because it was considered too
> dangerous,

No, absolutely not. The reason they're not being marked for autoremoval is
because there's a bug in the interface between update-manager and aptdaemon.