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[Ingolf Becker <1267059@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

#20: Thanks for the github link.

#21: You are right, for some reason I thought that autoclean does
autoremove. You are not quite correct though: If you upgrade a package,
the list of dependencies may have changed and dependency may have been
dropped. This will then be no longer required, and should fall in that
difference of the two sets.

So really we need an additional switch that removes not only the
packages that have newly become auto-removable, but removes all auto-
removable packages. Which would then be equivalent to doing apt-get
autoremove.

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

Status in unattended-upgrades package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

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.

  ----
  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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