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unattended-upgrades package

  1. Bug #1624644
  2. Comment #49

Comment 49 for bug 1624644

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Balint Reczey (rbalint) wrote : Re: [Bug 1624644] Re: By default settings unattended-upgrade does not automatically remove packages that become unused in conjunction with updating by other software

On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 3:12 PM, Jarno Suni <email address hidden> wrote:
> Brian, I tested the update-manager version you told. It is true that
> update-manager removes the unused packages, but step 3. (unattended-
> upgrades) does not remove the unused kernels.
>
> I add failed tag as this bug is originally about unattended-upgrades.

Thanks for testing the fix and also thank you for preparing the
linux-purge script. I read it but integrating it to to current tools
would have been problematic and I hope you agree that the solution
finally used is minimally intrusive and achieves removing unused
kernels in a safe way.

The fix for unattended-upgrades is not uploaded yet but is available
Bionic and in the ppa:rbalint/scratch PPA if you would like to give it
a try.