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This bug was fixed in the package unattended-upgrades -
1.5ubuntu3.18.10.2

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unattended-upgrades (1.5ubuntu3.18.10.2) cosmic; urgency=medium

  * Clear cache when autoremoval fails (LP: #1779157)
  * Find autoremovable kernel packages using the patterns in APT's way
    (LP: #1815494)
  * Filter out progress indicator from dpkg log (LP: #1599646)

 -- Balint Reczey <rbalint@xxxxxxxxxx>  Thu, 21 Feb 2019 15:10:13 +0100

** Changed in: unattended-upgrades (Ubuntu Cosmic)
       Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released

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Title:
  May remove autoremovable non-kernel packages matching pattern from
  APT::VersionedKernelPackages

Status in unattended-upgrades package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in update-manager package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in unattended-upgrades source package in Xenial:
  Fix Committed
Status in unattended-upgrades source package in Bionic:
  Fix Released
Status in unattended-upgrades source package in Cosmic:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  [Impact]

  * Non-kernel related autoremovable packages may be removed by unattended-upgrades due to their name matching generic patterns like '.*-modules' which should be applied to versioned kernel packages only.
  * The fix corrects the way those patterns are handled.

  [Test Case]

  * test/test_remove_unused.py checks for correct pattern usage now.

  [Regression Potential]

  * Unattended-upgrades may stop removing autoremovable kernels, but the
  tests also contain cases covering this and u-u's kernel autoremoval
  still works.

  [Original Bug Text]

  Unattended-upgrades and Update Manager use the patterns from the
  APT::VersionedKernelPackages list directly for finding kernel packages
  to remove while APT uses patterns by attaching version and flavor to
  them.

  As a result in APT's script ".*-modules" becomes
  "^.*-modules-4\.15\.0-45-generic$":

  ...
          for package in $(apt-config dump --no-empty --format '%v%n' 'APT::VersionedKernelPackages'); do
                  for kernel in $kernels; do
                          echo "   \"^${package}-${kernel}$\";"
    done
  ...

  In unattended-upgrades and update-manager ".*-modules" is used
  directly for matching and may false  identify autoremovable packages
  as kernel-related ones and remove them (of just offer the removal in
  case of update-manager):

  ...
  Removing unused kernel packages: extra-cmake-modules
  marking extra-cmake-modules for removal
  (Reading database ... 31149 files and directories currently installed.)
  Removing extra-cmake-modules (5.44.0-0ubuntu1) ...
  Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.3-2ubuntu0.1) ...
  Packages that were successfully auto-removed: extra-cmake-modules
  ...

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