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unattended-upgrades package

  1. Artful (17.10)
  2. Bug #1624644
  3. Comment #24

Comment 24 for bug 1624644

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote : Re: [Bug 1624644] Re: By default settings unattended-upgrade is unable to automatically remove packages that become unused in conjunction with updating by other software.

On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 02:03:41PM -0000, Jarno Suni wrote:
> Brian, however, as you installed the kernel by apt-get install, the
> kernel becomes manually installed, and will not later be removed by
> 'sudo apt autoremove', unless you change it to be marked as
> automatically installed.

No, this is not the behavior I observed. After installing a new kernel
version via update-manager or 'sudo apt-get install' on Ubuntu 16.04, 'sudo
apt autoremove' does the right thing and wants to remove my third newest
kernel.

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Brian Murray