Comment 103 for bug 1357093

Jackalux, oh I see you have found the popular one-liner script for kernel removing. It is too complicated for what it does and too simple for what it should possibly do.

I have written a script to ease kernel removal:
https://www.bountysource.com/issues/38300038-feature-request-the-command-should-work-like-this
You (and other complainers) could post a small bounty to fund the work. Alternatively I think we could form an association to fund the work and other stuff that novice Ubuntu users may need provided it could attract enough paying members.

Andreas Lindhé, you have a point. I don't know who decides it, but I suppose the fix to the bug could be backported or SRUed to even older LTS releases. But it seems that the fix does not work even in 16.04 (Bug #1675079); that applies only to the new Unattended-Upgrade::Remove-New-Unused-Dependencies setting in unattended-upgrades, though, so if setting Unattended-Upgrade::Remove-Unused-Dependencies "true" suits to you, there is a fix available. Alternatively, e.g. my script could be run from a cron job or (in 16.04 or later) from a systemv timer to handle automatic kernel removal.