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[Bug 1267059] Re: "Unattended-Upgrade::Remove-Unused-Dependencies" does not work

 

Is there any news on this being added as a security update to trusty?
I'm beginning to wonder what "LTS" means if a bug that results in every
installation of Ubuntu sooner or later ceasing to receive security
updates does not get pushed out as part of the security updates.

(As someone else mentioned, "APT::Periodic::AutocleanInterval" does not
fix this, that is something completely different.)

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Title:
  "Unattended-Upgrade::Remove-Unused-Dependencies" does not work

Status in unattended-upgrades package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  I have a system that runs unattended-upgrades just fine. Now i want to
  automate removal of old kernels and kernel header packages that are
  accumulating otherwise. So i set 'Unattended-Upgrade::Remove-Unused-
  Dependencies "true";'. But it doesn't work.

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  Details: Lots of stuff pending autoremoval:

  $ apt-get --assume-no autoremove 
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree       
  Reading state information... Done
  The following packages will be REMOVED
    linux-headers-3.2.0-38 linux-headers-3.2.0-38-generic linux-headers-3.2.0-39 linux-headers-3.2.0-39-generic linux-headers-3.2.0-40 linux-headers-3.2.0-40-generic linux-headers-3.2.0-41 linux-headers-3.2.0-41-generic linux-headers-3.2.0-43 linux-headers-3.2.0-43-generic linux-headers-3.2.0-44 linux-headers-3.2.0-44-generic linux-headers-3.2.0-45 linux-headers-3.2.0-45-generic linux-headers-3.2.0-48 linux-headers-3.2.0-48-generic linux-headers-3.2.0-51 linux-headers-3.2.0-51-generic linux-headers-3.2.0-52 linux-headers-3.2.0-52-generic linux-headers-3.2.0-53 linux-headers-3.2.0-53-generic linux-headers-3.2.0-54 linux-headers-3.2.0-54-generic linux-headers-3.2.0-55 linux-headers-3.2.0-55-generic linux-headers-3.2.0-56 linux-headers-3.2.0-56-generic linux-image-3.2.0-39-generic linux-image-3.2.0-40-generic linux-image-3.2.0-41-generic linux-image-3.2.0-43-generic linux-image-3.2.0-44-generic linux-image-3.2.0-45-generic linux-image-3.2.0-48-generic linux-image-3.2.0-51-generic linux-image-3.2.0-52-generic linux-image-3.2.0-53-generic linux-image-3.2.0-54-generic linux-image-3.2.0-55-generic linux-image-3.2.0-56-generic
  0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 41 to remove and 13 not upgraded.
  After this operation, 2,893 MB disk space will be freed.
  Do you want to continue [Y/n]? N
  Abort.

  Note that the majority of these packages have been installed by
  unattended-upgrades from precise-security.

  According to the comments within/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-
  upgrades, this should automate autoremoval:

    // Do automatic removal of new unused dependencies after the upgrade
    // (equivalent to apt-get autoremove)
    Unattended-Upgrade::Remove-Unused-Dependencies "true";

  but nothing happens (note the line "Packages that are auto removed: ''
  ":

  $ unattended-upgrades --debug --dry-run
  Initial blacklisted packages: 
  Starting unattended upgrades script
  Allowed origins are: ['o=Ubuntu,a=precise-security']
  adjusting candidate version: '<Version: package:'accountsservice' version:'0.6.15-2ubuntu9.6.1'>'
  adjusting candidate version: '<Version: package:'libaccountsservice0' version:'0.6.15-2ubuntu9.6.1'>'
  adjusting candidate version: '<Version: package:'libdrm-intel1' version:'2.4.43-0ubuntu0.0.3'>'
  adjusting candidate version: '<Version: package:'libdrm-nouveau1a' version:'2.4.43-0ubuntu0.0.3'>'
  adjusting candidate version: '<Version: package:'libdrm-radeon1' version:'2.4.43-0ubuntu0.0.3'>'
  adjusting candidate version: '<Version: package:'libdrm2' version:'2.4.43-0ubuntu0.0.3'>'
  Checking: bc (["<Origin component:'main' archive:'precise-updates' origin:'Ubuntu' label:'Ubuntu' site:'gb.archive.ubuntu.com' isTrusted:True>"])
  Checking: grub-common (["<Origin component:'main' archive:'precise-updates' origin:'Ubuntu' label:'Ubuntu' site:'gb.archive.ubuntu.com' isTrusted:True>"])
  Checking: grub-pc (["<Origin component:'main' archive:'precise-updates' origin:'Ubuntu' label:'Ubuntu' site:'gb.archive.ubuntu.com' isTrusted:True>"])
  Checking: grub-pc-bin (["<Origin component:'main' archive:'precise-updates' origin:'Ubuntu' label:'Ubuntu' site:'gb.archive.ubuntu.com' isTrusted:True>"])
  Checking: grub2-common (["<Origin component:'main' archive:'precise-updates' origin:'Ubuntu' label:'Ubuntu' site:'gb.archive.ubuntu.com' isTrusted:True>"])
  Checking: iproute (["<Origin component:'main' archive:'precise-updates' origin:'Ubuntu' label:'Ubuntu' site:'gb.archive.ubuntu.com' isTrusted:True>"])
  Checking: landscape-common (["<Origin component:'main' archive:'precise-updates' origin:'Ubuntu' label:'Ubuntu' site:'gb.archive.ubuntu.com' isTrusted:True>"])
  pkgs that look like they should be upgraded: 
  Fetched 0 B in 0s (0 B/s)                                                                                                                                                      
  blacklist: []
  Packages that are auto removed: ''
  InstCount=0 DelCount=0 BrokenCout=0
  No packages found that can be upgraded unattended

  
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  I am using unattended-upgrades-0.76ubuntu1 on Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS

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