regression: ?garbage does not work correctly in install commands
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| apt (Ubuntu) | Status tracked in Mantic | |||||
| Jammy |
Confirmed
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned | |||
| Lunar |
Confirmed
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned | |||
| Mantic |
Triaged
|
High
|
Julian Andres Klode | |||
Bug Description
The awesome apt has a some wonderful tips on their EXAMPLES section (printed below). The choice of name to "garbage" might not have been the best but the function is extremely useful.
$ man apt-patterns | sed '/EXAMPLES/,/^[^ ]/!d;/^[^ ]/d'
apt remove ?garbage
Remove all packages that are automatically installed and no longer needed -
same as apt autoremove
apt purge ?config-files
Purge all packages that only have configuration files left
apt list '~i !~M (~slibs|
List all manually-installed packages in sections matching libs, perl, or
python.
Lets mark a package as automatically installed, and use the examples.
$ sudo apt-mark auto shotwell
shotwell set to automatically installed.
$ sudo apt remove ?garbage
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libraw20 shotwell shotwell-common
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
$ sudo apt autoremove
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
libraw20 shotwell shotwell-common
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 3 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 9.806 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] N
Abort.
Apt-patterns works as it should everywhere else, as far as I can see, it works wonders with ie `apt list '~g|~c'` and many other applications. I used `apt purge '~g|~c'` successfully in Ubuntu 20.04 for years, so I feel this is a regression.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04
Package: apt 2.4.8
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 5.15.0-52-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelMo
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu82.1
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckR
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Sun Nov 6 10:57:52 2022
SourcePackage: apt
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to jammy on 2022-03-26 (224 days ago)
| Mekaniserad Apelsin (blippe) wrote | #1 |
| Mekaniserad Apelsin (blippe) wrote | #2 |
| Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote | #3 |
| Changed in apt (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| Julian Andres Klode (juliank) wrote Re: ?garbage does not work correctly in install commands | #4 |
| summary: |
- apt-patterns does not work as described in man pages + ?garbage does not work correctly in install commands |
| Changed in apt (Ubuntu): | |
| importance: | Undecided → High |
| assignee: | nobody → Julian Andres Klode (juliank) |
| tags: | added: foundations-todo |
| summary: |
- ?garbage does not work correctly in install commands + regression: ?garbage does not work correctly in install commands |
| Changed in apt (Ubuntu Jammy): | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| Changed in apt (Ubuntu Lunar): | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| Changed in apt (Ubuntu Mantic): | |
| status: | Confirmed → Triaged |
| Julian Andres Klode (juliank) wrote | #5 |
Just tested on bullseye and both commands below works as expected|indented, packages marked as automatically installed (and no longer needed) and packages with configuration files left are removed, as per apt subcommand.
$ sudo apt purge '~g|~c'
$ sudo apt remove '~g|~c'