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[Roman Valov <1472351@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Adam, is it really considered to be okay that 3rd party package broke
system functionality? I mean it sounds like some kind a way to "attack"
a system with dummy deb-package. Moreover I can find several packages
that depend on linux-headers-generic in universe repositories.

Probably you can point me out that depending on linux-headers-* isn't
recommended by any packaging policy? Unless that I think it's definitely
autoremove functionality flaw.

** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu)
       Status: Invalid => New

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Title:
  autoremove unable to sweep any linux-headers packages

Status in apt package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Hi,
  i'm using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and I have an issue with autoremove command.

  The point is that I have Virtualbox package installed that has
  following tag:

  Recommends: linux-headers

  As a result autoremove marks all of linux-headers-*/linux-headers-*-generic
  packages as required and declines to sweep them. Please check the attached
  log file.

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