On 27-05-17, Dejan Jocic wrote: > On 26-05-17, Fungi4All wrote: > > From: jode...@gmail.com > > As for reason why old one is not removed, it is because Debian keeps not > > just newly installed kernel, but also one previously installed. One > > before that was removed by apt-get autoremove. > > > > Unless different desktops have different autoremove behavior in my recent > > experience kernels can only be removed manually. If you get a current > > today's image of 8.8 and update/upgrade, then switch to testing and upd/upg, > > then unstable and upd/upg and autoremove as many times as you like, > > you will end up with 3 kernels as a choice to boot unstable from. > > I think in the past it did not work this way. > > Please, do not replay to me and cc it to the list, you mess things up. > No need to cc me either, I'm subscribed to the list. Thank you in > advance for that. > > As for subject itself, no, it is not desktop related. For your specific > case of upgrading from stable to unstable via testing, have no idea, > never did it that way.
Just to clarify it a bit, what happens with your old kernel packages should be set with: /etc/kernel/postinst.d/apt-auto-removal which generates file: /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/01autoremove-kernels