Ian Weisser, I think in 16.04, in contrary to what you claim, packages are not autoremoved before doing anything else. https://github.com/mvo5/unattended-upgrades tells: "Unattended-Upgrade::Remove-New-Unused-Dependencies - boolean (default:True)
Remove any new unused dependencies after the upgrade finished." Anyway, in my 16.04 system, where I have the setting enabled (as default) and unattended-upgrades enabled (via Software & Updates), I currently have 6 kernels installed, so I think it is not doing its job well. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to unattended-upgrades in Ubuntu. 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 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unattended-upgrades/+bug/1357093/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp