This was fixed in Xenial. The default is now to remove newly unused
dependencies after every unattended upgrade.
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unattended-upgrades (0.89) unstable; urgency=medium
[ Michael Vogt ]
* Add `Unattended-Upgrade::Remove-New-Unused-Dependencies` that
defaults to "yes". This ensures that older kernel
get automatically cleaned up and /boot will not overflow.
LP: #1267059
* Remove downloaded deb packages after successful installs.
This can be controlled via the option:
`Unattended-Upgrade::Keep-Debs-After-Install`
(Closes: #809428)
* Only remove debs in the cache dir
[ Steffen Köhler ]
* Allow to configure sender email via `Unattended-Upgrade::Sender`
[ Antti Riikonen ]
* Minor typo fix in comment
[ Cleto Martin ]
* bugfix: non-ascii chars in dpkg log file crashes unattended upgrades
Closes: #812857
[ James Valleroy ]
* Set debconf value for auto updates based on current configuration.
[ Alexandre Detiste ]
* update French transalation
-- Michael Vogt <m...@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jan 2016 16:04:52 +0100
** Tags removed: xenial
** Changed in: unattended-upgrades (Ubuntu)
Importance: High => Wishlist
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1357093
Title:
Kernels not autoremoving, causing out of space error on LVM or
Encrypted installation or on any installation, when /boot partition
gets full
Status in unattended-upgrades package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Bug description:
Currently if one chooses to use LVM or encrypted install, a /boot
partition is created of 236Mb
Once kernel updates start being released this partition soon fills
until people are left unable to upgrade.
While you and I might know that we need to watch partition space, many
of the people we have installing think that a windows disk is a disk
and not a partition, education is probably the key - but in the
meantime support venues keep needing to deal with the fact the
partition is too small and/or old kernels are not purged as new ones
install.
For workaround and sytem repair, see
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lubuntu/Documentation/RemoveOldKernels
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