Code review comment for lp:~marcustomlinson/update-manager/update-manager

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote :

> I also do not see where update-manager performs autoremoval;
> does that actually exist? If not, we would need to do the apt
> removal here too (we already identified the package and that
> it's autoremovable, so should be possible).

We should not, as a policy, do autoremovals of other debs as part of an ordinary update-manager run because we don't know why the package has become autoremovable and this can significantly impact the usability of the user's system.

We do autoremovals only on upgrade between releases, because that's a significant event where the possibility of some fallout is to be expected.

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