[Aptitude-devel] Bug#1029920: mention APT::Clean-Installed on autoclean part of man page

Dan Jacobson jidanni at jidanni.org
Sun Jan 29 00:16:40 GMT 2023


Package: aptitude
Version: 0.8.13-5

autoclean is great, but it would be nice if there could be an optional
way to not have it delete .debs of installed versions.

Yes, most old .debs we don't want anymore,
except if that is the version we actually have installed.

I don't want to throw away a working .deb, and keep a non working .deb,
even if the latter is the current version upstream.

I just want to keep these
aptitude --disable-columns -F %p\ %v search ~U\|~o

out of the
aptitude -s autoclean list.

Wait, on man apt-get the autoclean section mentions APT::Clean-Installed
but that is missing from the corresponding man aptitude section, even
though it works the same way.

Therefore please simply also mention it on man aptitude, to save
users hours.

rgrep  Clean-I -l /usr/share/doc/aptitude/html/en/ finds none there, but
it is right on the apt-get man page, meaning it is important.



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