** Changed in: computer-janitor (Ubuntu)
Status: Triaged = Won't Fix
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Title:
Don't mark for removal manually installed packages
To manage
We are indeed a bit close to the release by now. One relatively
straightforward fix would be to patch python-apt/gdebi/aptaemon so that
the install_deb code writes the packagename into /var/lib/apt/notjunk
(or manualdownlaoded or something like this). The CJ could honor that.
This would not catch
That would sure be nice, but one of the use cases where dpkg is called
directly is when installing libdvdcss2: this is one of the worst cases
since people won't notice they actually need this package, which was
installed automatically by a script.
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** Changed in: computer-janitor (Ubuntu)
Importance: Medium = High
** Changed in: computer-janitor (Ubuntu)
Milestone: None = ubuntu-11.04
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What's causing this is that the CJ unsupported_plugin.py cruft finder
plugin will match on all manually installed packages. If you look at
the code
http://tinyurl.com/3sxhhhx
you'll see that the plugin even admits that this will happen, but
doesn't really provide a way to prevent it. I'm not
Why not simply only suggest the packages for removing which sudo apt-
get autoremove would remove? It never suggested for me to remove any
manufacturer-supplied printer drivers or other third-party packages.
Your suggestion to whitelist the packages which are installed without
using apt does not
@Ian: if you installed vim-full manually via apt-get install apt should
have marked it as a manual install. It would be nice to get the
/var/lib/apt/extended_states file from your system.
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The probem describe in #4 is that a package installed with dpkg or
gdebi is not downloadable most of the time (because there is no
repository associated with it. This is why CJ considers it potentially
obsolete.
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The long term solution should be that a package records its origin in
the extended_states file. As a short term solution we can just disable
the plugin as the auto-removable plugin will take care of most of the
important cases. Its currently impossible for the code to distinguish
between a package
I have now done a test of triggereing a printer driver auto-download
with Jockey and directly after that I have started computer-janitor and
the newly installed driver is not on the list of packages to remove. So
it seems Jockey has installed the driver with apt. But if I click on a
driver
mvo barry: I agreed with what you said in the bugreport, its not a
regression in any way, the long term solution should be to record if it
was a install via dpkg or not [15:13]
mvo barry: TBH I don't understand it, or rather I think the result is/will
be that all installed
Barry, can we perhaps simply deactivate this plugin for Natty? And get
it later in again if it gets more sensitive in deciding what can be
removed and what not?
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I'm reluctant to do that because that could be considered a regression
and we won't have another beta to test it out. Please note that you can
always whitelist the package manually by adding a file called /etc
/computer-janitor.d/whatever.whitelist
That may in fact lead to an interesting
Regression is very relative. I think in this precise case we can
easily anticipate the costs and benefits of such a change without
requiring user testing. Few people will complain that CJ doesn't remove
this kind of obsolete packages, and if they really know they want to get
rid of them, they can
** Branch linked: lp:~r.phate/computer-janitor/bug-458872
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Title:
Don't mark for removal manually installed packages
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In the dupe bug #704385, a user lost paid software because CJ
uninstalled it. This behaviour should be dealt with soon.
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Title:
Don't mark for
Confirmed. It seems that even packages you installed manually using dpkg
-i or GDebi are considered as obsolete. This means from the moment you
installed them, CJ wants to remove them. I guess there's a way to find
out whether they were installed from a repository that is now disabled,
or if the
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