I would like to mention that I agree with him : the average user have no
idea of what a kernel is, which one to remove, and why an update cannot
be done when /boot is full. Keeping only the previous kernel would be
largely sufficient.

 - Say user installs ubuntu from scratch, it gets 1 stock kernel, kernel-0
 - An update to that kernel is made : kernel-1 is installed, and kernel-0 is 
kept.
 - Another update pushes kernel-2, kernel-0 is erased because kernel-1 is in 
use during update
 - Say kernel-2 has a problem : user choose kernel-1 by default and continue 
working with that one.
 - Another update pushes kernel-3 : kernel-2 is erased since kernel-1 is in use 
during update ; the computer now has only two kernels, kernel-3 and kernel-1
 - etc...

Such behavior would be to my mind, perfect for everybody.

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Too many kernels after upgrades
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/575745
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