[Aptitude-devel] Bug#902652: Bug#902652: Bug#902652: aptitude doesn't autoremove kernels

[Julian Andres Klode]

On Sun, May 02, 2021 at 01:42:29PM +0200, Axel Beckert wrote:
> Control: notfound 902652 0.8.13-3
> Contyrol: severity 902652 norma;
> 
> Dear Jidanni,
> 
> > Proof that aptitude is not ready for
> > 
> >    /usr/share/doc/apt/NEWS.Debian.gz
> >    apt (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=medium
> > 
> >      Automatically remove unused kernels on apt {dist,full}-upgrade. To revert
> >      to previous behavior, set APT::Get::AutomaticRemove::Kernels to false or
> >      pass --no-auto-remove to the command. apt-get remains unchanged.
> 
> Proof that this is wrong:
> 
> That feature wasn't present in apt 1.4.8 which was present when the
> original bug was reported. Hence reverting your changes to this bug
> report.
> 
> Feel free to report a separate bug report for compatibility with the
> 2.1.16 apt changes.
> 
> And wrt. to
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/aptitude/+bug/1772688:
> Please note that apt-get hasn't changed either and behaves differently
> that apt. And nobody stated that aptitude will follow apt and not
> apt-get. (Nobody has stated the opposite either, though, but it's
> obviously the default.)

There is a bug in aptitude, so to speak, as it protects all linux
images, it literally protects like ~n^linux-image or something like
that by supplying its own root set function somewhere, when it should
just rely on APT's default root set function.

That said, that's a post-freeze topic I reckon.

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