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unattended-upgrades package

  1. Bug #1357093
  2. Comment #8

Comment 8 for bug 1357093

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Sergey Romanov (sml-uni) wrote : Re: LVM or Encrypted install creates too small /boot partition

Link to yet another forum thread: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2256479
The problem is twofold.

1) Users not paying attention to apt-get saying:

The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
...
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.

like in the thread linked above.

2) Systems where linux-image-<version>-{generic,server,goldfish,lowlatency} don't get suggested for autoremoval after upgrade to newer versions of linux-{generic,server,goldfish,lowlatency}/linux-image-{generic,server,goldfish,lowlatency}. Mostly because some dkms-based kernel-modules are installed like NVIDIA/AMD propietary video drivers or VirtualBox. dkms recommends virtual package linux-image provided by each and every linux-image-<version>-{generic,server,goldfish,lowlatency}. That prevents their autoremoval as long as dkms is installed and apt is configured not to autoremove recommended packages (Apt::AutoRemove::RecommendsImportant).