On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 01:59:58PM -0400, anarcat wrote: > autoremove didn't catch everything: a bunch of packages were "obsolete" > according to aptitude and I had to remove those by hand. it would be nice if > the upgrade process would cover those as well. this includes python 2.6, the > older kernel, openjdk 6, gcc 4.6 and a bunch more random libs that clutter the > system.
It is dangerous to remove them since some users might still have non-dpkg-installed software depending on them. Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here.