retitle 979631 Document AutomaticRemove::Kernels facts somewhere thanks >>>>> "JAK" == Julian Andres Klode <j...@debian.org> writes: JAK> There seems to be a misunderstanding on your side here - we always keep
That is all great, but documented nowhere in /usr/share/doc nor any man page. Without knowing all that, users will worry or continue to rely on programs like: # cat bin/remove-oldest-kernel #!/bin/bash -eux # remove my oldest kernel to free disk space # Copyright : http://www.fsf.org/copyleft/gpl.html # Author : Dan Jacobson -- http://jidanni.org/ # Created On : June 2007 # Last Modified On: Wed Apr 10 13:30:58 2019 # Update Count : 126 ls -1 /boot/vmlinuz* apt-show-versions -r -p "^linux-(doc|image)-[0-9]+\." echo Remove \#... set -- $(aptitude -F %p search ~nlinux-image-.........*~o) echo [hit ^D to get out] select kernel do aptitude purge $kernel break done