keep the 3 or 5 youngest linux-image-*-generic and autoremove the rest

[buhtz]

Keep a configurable number (per default maybe 3) of the youngest installed generic kernel images.
Onlye the generic ones! Selfbuild kernels are not affected of that.

Ubuntu-Systems running very long without reinstallation. After some years of updating there are a lot of old kernel-images installed but never used. It is a lot of space for mobile devices like netbooks, laptops or smaller.

It can be realize (like feudora does) with a meta-package like "kernel-lates" which is assoziated with the last/youngest 3 kernels.

All older one would be autoremoved.

Of course there could be selected another solution to make it easier to configure if someone need to keep all old kernels.

[buhtz (buhtz)]

Another solution:

Just kill the sub-menu in GRUB2.

If the use could see all installed kernel-images (a growing list) he would think about that topic and handle it byhimself.

[tomtomtom (tomtomtom)]

This bug-report has no context to the package gst-plugin-ugly0.10...

[Ben Hutchings (benh-debian)]

kernel-package contains tools for building custom kernel packages. It is not the correct package for this bug.

[Julian Andres Klode (juliank)]

We only keep a certain number of installed kernels, across all flavours. Older ones are autoremoved, even automatically with unattended-upgrades.