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unattended-upgrades package

  1. Artful (17.10)
  2. Bug #1624644
  3. Comment #32

Comment 32 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 Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 08:36:13PM -0000, Balint Reczey wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 2:42 PM, Julian Andres Klode
> <email address hidden> wrote:
> > Hmm, I thought we would not do that anymore, and packages get marked as
> > manual when removing a meta package, but I might be missing something.
>
> I ran this on zesty, but if meta packages are handled differently then
> I could imagine a similar
> case when meta packages are not involved.

I ran the same metapackage removal test on Xenial, so if Julian is right
and this is a regression its a rather old one. Do you have any more
details about your thoughts Julian?

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Brian Murray