On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 06:45:11AM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > Control: clone -1 > Control: reassign -1 firefox-esr 60.3.0esr-2 > > Am 28.11.18 um 06:39 schrieb Michael Biebl: > > > Please consider dropping old versions of libavcodec from the alternative > > Recommends list so obsolete libraries can be properly autoremoved. > > Manually purging libavcodec57 frees up 32.7MB of disk space: > > # apt purge libavcodec57 --autoremove > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > The following packages will be REMOVED: > libavcodec57* libavutil55* libswresample2* libx264-152* libx265-160* > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 5 to remove and 1 not upgraded. > After this operation, 32.7 MB disk space will be freed. > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] > > > firefox-esr has the same problem, so cloning the bug report accordingly.
I'd argue apt purge should be able to remove libavcodec57 on its own, assuming you have libavcodec58 installed (since the recommends is for one of them). Also note that libavcodec57 is still in unstable... Mike
