Ubuntu
aptitude package

does not automatically remove unused packages

Bug #12897 reported by Danilo Piazzalunga on 2005-02-14

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	aptitude (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Medium	Michael Vogt

Bug Description

Since aptitude::Delete-Unused-Pattern="!linux-image" has been added, aptitude
does not automatically remove unused packages anymore.

When I set the pattern to the empty string, aptitude takes care of unused
packages again.

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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote on 2005-02-15:

Can you please tell me if aptitude::Delete-Unused-Pattern="^linux-image.*$"
works as expected? That is, it should auto-remove all unused packages but
packages starting with "linux-image" ?

thanks,
Michael

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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote on 2005-02-15:

I uploaded a new version that changes the string to "^linux-image.*$". Can you
please tell me if that helps?

Thanks,
Michael

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Danilo Piazzalunga (danilopiazza) wrote on 2005-02-15:

Thank you, it works perfectly. Who could imagine that the thing did exactly the
opposite?

I'm closing this bug, since it was fixed by your upload. Thanks again for your
responsiveness.

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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote on 2005-02-15:

(In reply to comment #3)
> Thank you, it works perfectly. Who could imagine that the thing did exactly the
> opposite?
>
> I'm closing this bug, since it was fixed by your upload. Thanks again for your
> responsiveness.

Thanks for finding the bug in the first place and for testing it again!
I had to mail Daniel (the author of aptitude) to find out why it goes wrong :)