apt/debian/apt.conf.autoremove, branch 2.9.2

Have values in Section config trees refer to them in all components

2023-01-29T23:55:05Z

Hard coding each and every component is not only boring but given that everyone is free to add or use more we end up in situations in which apt behaves differently for the same binary package just because metadata said it is in different components (e.g. non-free vs. non-free-firmware). It is also probably not what the casual user would expect. So we instead treat a value without a component as if it applies for all of them. The previous behaviour can be restored by prefixing the value with "/" as in the component is not defined. In an ideal world we would probably use "*/foo" for the new default instead of changing the behaviour for "foo", but it seems rather unlikely that the old behaviour is actually desired. All existing values were duplicated for all (previously) known components in Debian and Ubuntu.

Add 'tasks' section to default APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections list

2022-12-30T20:21:35Z

Task packages need to be handled just like metapackages so that users don't accidentally autoremove half of their system after removing one of task's dependencies.

Widen regular expressions for versioned kernel packages

2020-01-30T15:58:23Z

Since we append a concrete kernel version to each pattern, and then anchor the pattern, let's just pick any package starting with a kernel name (linux-, kfreebsd-, gnumach-), and not worry about linux-headers, linux-tools, etc specifically, as they'll be caught by the generic pattern. LP: #1607845

Add linux-{buildinfo,image-unsigned,source} versioned kernel pkgs

2019-05-06T09:33:18Z

LP: #1821640

NeverAutoRemove kernel meta packages

2018-10-22T09:29:30Z

This gives more protection for people where kernel metapackages are accidentally removed. LP: #1787460

apt.conf.autoremove: Catch some new Ubuntu module packages

2018-04-20T10:04:31Z

apt.conf.autoremove: Add linux-cloud-tools to list

2018-02-23T14:37:53Z

LP: #1698159

add {contrib,non-free}/{metapackages,oldlibs} to section specialhandling

2015-08-14T20:59:22Z

Closes: 788320

move manual-bit from 'oldlibs' pkg to its dependencies

2015-08-10T15:27:59Z

oldlibs used to be in APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections so that old transition packages can be removed without causing the then (autoinstalled) renamed package to be autoremoved. It isn't ideal through as ideally you want the oldlibs package to be removed after nothing depends on it anymore regardless of if you have once installed it by hand or not – and if you had the package talking over (the dependencies) should carry the manual bit now as they are the real deal now. As an added bonus if the package has no dependencies because it is an oldlibs without a direct replacement you should move away from (like lib1 and lib2 are currently in the archive, but there will hopefully only be lib2 in the release) you get a lib1 marked as auto. If the user still needs the oldlibs package for some reason all he has to do is mark it as manual once as this move is only performed if a installed package changes its section from a not-Move-Autobit-Sections to a Move-Autobit-Sections.

reduce delta from ubuntu

2014-04-25T12:50:39Z