On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 1:49 PM, Brian Murray <br...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > @Balint re "@Jarno: IMO Unattended-Upgrade::Remove-Unused-Dependencies > is already a risky option and I don't recommend enabling it because it > may remove packages which are not used according the to package- > dependency chain but which users rely on using software that is not > packaged." > > Could you give me an example of how people would install dependencies > for software that is not package that would also set the > "is_auto_removable" flag in the apt cache to True? I can't think of a > situation like this.
I had the opposite situation in my mind. People would remove packages which are not auto removable, like ubuntu-desktop (for example because something ubuntu-desktop depends on is acting badly) and then many package in ubuntu-desktop's dependency change become auto removable: $ sudo apt-get remove ubuntu-desktop Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: a11y-profile-manager-indicator activity-log-manager adium-theme-ubuntu aisleriot app-install-data-partner apturl apturl-common baobab bluez-cups ... xorg Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them. The following packages will be REMOVED: ubuntu-desktop 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 7 not upgraded. After this operation, 46,1 kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] It is a simpler problematic situation than the one I originally mentioned, u-u would remove software which is probably in use, no additional software is broken. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-software in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1624644 Title: By default settings unattended-upgrade is unable to automatically remove packages that become unused in conjunction with updating by other software. Status in apt package in Ubuntu: New Status in gnome-software package in Ubuntu: New Status in unattended-upgrades package in Ubuntu: New Status in update-manager package in Ubuntu: New Status in apt source package in Artful: New Status in gnome-software source package in Artful: New Status in unattended-upgrades source package in Artful: New Status in update-manager source package in Artful: New Bug description: When using default settings for unattended-upgrade i.e. Unattended-Upgrade::Remove-Unused-Dependencies "false"; # default "false" Unattended-Upgrade::Remove-New-Unused-Dependencies "true"; # default "true" in configuration file /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades, unattended-upgrade is unable to remove packages that become unused in conjunction with updating by other software such as update-manager or apt full-upgrade. This is because unattended-upgrade compares the list of unneeded packages before and after it upgrades packages to detect which packages are new unused ones. Consequently, if user installs new kernels using e.g. update-manager, the excessive kernels will not be removed by unattended-upgrade, and eventually (small) /boot will become full. Expected behavior: handle removing of unused packages differently at least until other package management software installed by default can handle removing of new unused packages. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04 Package: unattended-upgrades 0.90 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-36.55-generic 4.4.16 Uname: Linux 4.4.0-36-generic i686 ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1 Architecture: i386 CurrentDesktop: XFCE Date: Sat Sep 17 11:28:44 2016 InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-09-05 (11 days ago) InstallationMedia: Mythbuntu 16.04.1 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release i386 (20160719) PackageArchitecture: all SourcePackage: unattended-upgrades UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/1624644/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
