Comment 13 for bug 1465050

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote : Re: [Bug 1465050] Re: Size of /boot partition is too small

On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 03:47:40AM -0000, Paul Gear wrote:
> @vorlon, perhaps it was not clear enough from previous comments on this
> bug, but some of us *want* to be able to install more than 4 kernels for
> testing purposes, and asking for a larger (or better yet, customisable)
> /boot is a perfectly reasonable thing to do, especially given the sizes
> we're talking about relative to the size of modern hard disks.

Customizing the size of your /boot partition is already possible in
ubiquity. This bug report is saying that the *default* size of the /boot
partition is too small.

I haven't verified whether it is or isn't too small for the default use case
in xenial, though Brian's comment #5 indicates that it is too small. But
that has nothing to do with supporting the install of "more than 4 kernels
for testing purposes".

> This bug was previously tagged as a duplicate of the lack of kernel
> autoremove, and but they're not the same thing, and should not be
> conflated.

Ok, so maybe you want to mark bug #1553442 as a duplicate of the *other*
bug, since Stuart's symptom is definitely a result of the lack of
autoremoval.