This bug was fixed in the package apt - 2.7.3ubuntu0.1
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apt (2.7.3ubuntu0.1) mantic; urgency=medium
* Restore ?garbage by calling MarkAndSweep before parsing (LP: #1995790)
* For phasing, check if current version is a security update, not just
previous ones
(LP: #2051181)
* Point gitlab-ci and gbp at mantic branch
* CI: Do not require UID 1000 for our test user
-- Julian Andres Klode <juli...@ubuntu.com> Tue, 13 Feb 2024 18:22:07
+0100
** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu Mantic)
Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released
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Title:
regression: ?garbage does not work correctly in install commands
Status in apt package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Status in apt source package in Jammy:
Fix Committed
Status in apt source package in Lunar:
Won't Fix
Status in apt source package in Mantic:
Fix Released
Status in apt source package in Noble:
Fix Released
Bug description:
[Impact]
The '?garbage' pattern doesn't work with install/remove commands which is
confusing, and the fix for it is trivial.
[Test plan]
Successful autopkgtest. The comprehensive test suite run as an autopkgtest
has been updated in test/integration/test-apt-get-autoremove to test for the
correct behavior of '?garbage' with install and remove.
[Where problems could occur]
You can see we had to tweak the test suite in a bunch of places because it
relies on exact debug output format and because we now call "markandsweep"
there's additional mark flags in the debug output. It's unlikely that this is a
problem for others.
We have not seen regressions in noble in the past 2 weeks or noble-
proposed since 2023-11-23 (it was stuck for other reasons there),
hence other places the code change may affect have been thoroughly
exercised in the builders and autopkgtest runners.
[Original bug report]
The awesome apt has a some wonderful tips on their EXAMPLES section (printed
below). The choice of name to "garbage" might not have been the best but the
function is extremely useful.
$ man apt-patterns | sed '/EXAMPLES/,/^[^ ]/!d;/^[^ ]/d'
apt remove ?garbage
Remove all packages that are automatically installed and no longer
needed -
same as apt autoremove
apt purge ?config-files
Purge all packages that only have configuration files left
apt list '~i !~M (~slibs|~sperl|~spython)'
List all manually-installed packages in sections matching libs,
perl, or
python.
Lets mark a package as automatically installed, and use the examples.
$ sudo apt-mark auto shotwell
shotwell set to automatically installed.
$ sudo apt remove ?garbage
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer
required:
libraw20 shotwell shotwell-common
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
$ sudo apt autoremove
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
libraw20 shotwell shotwell-common
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 3 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 9.806 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] N
Abort.
Apt-patterns works as it should everywhere else, as far as I can see,
it works wonders with ie `apt list '~g|~c'` and many other
applications. I used `apt purge '~g|~c'` successfully in Ubuntu 20.04
for years, so I feel this is a regression.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04
Package: apt 2.4.8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.15.0-52.58-generic 5.15.60
Uname: Linux 5.15.0-52-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu82.1
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Sun Nov 6 10:57:52 2022
SourcePackage: apt
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to jammy on 2022-03-26 (224 days ago)
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