Bernhard, yes, that's pretty much exactly what happens: if a package is no longer available in the package sources apt has, it's considered cruft. That's the best heuristic we have.
The whitelist is already implemented, and has been for a while. It is maintained manually by the user. The state of each package is remembered, so that you only need to tell Computer janitor once that you don't want a package removed. -- System cleaner removes explicitly installed third-party packages https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/285746 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
