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update-manager package

  1. Bug #1815494
  2. Comment #0

Comment 0 for bug 1815494

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Balint Reczey (rbalint) wrote : May remove non-kernel packages matching patttern from APT::VersionedKernelPackages

Unattended-upgrades and Update Manager use the patterns from the APT::VersionedKernelPackages list directly for finding kernel packages to remove while APT uses patterns by attaching version and flavor to them.

As a result in APT's script ".*-modules" becomes "^.*-modules-4\.15\.0-45-generic$":

...
        for package in $(apt-config dump --no-empty --format '%v%n' 'APT::VersionedKernelPackages'); do
                for kernel in $kernels; do
                        echo " \"^${package}-${kernel}$\";"
  done
...

In unattended-upgrades and update-manager ".*-modules" is used directly for matching and may false identify autoremovable packages as kernel-related ones and remove them (of just offer the removal in case of update-manager):

...
Removing unused kernel packages: extra-cmake-modules
marking extra-cmake-modules for removal
(Reading database ... 31149 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing extra-cmake-modules (5.44.0-0ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.3-2ubuntu0.1) ...
Packages that were successfully auto-removed: extra-cmake-modules
...