On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 10:04:10PM -0000, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> Unsupported and no longer available packages can be dealt with better by
> extending u-r-u, for example. They are not a valid argument for
> autoremoving packages still suggested by other packages.

> As I mentioned before, it seems reasonable to me that u-r-u would
> autoremove more than apt by setting SuggestsImportant to false. That
> solves (well, it improves, it's not an optimal solution) the problem of
> accumulated cruft during dist upgrades while at the same time not
> affecting operation on a running system.

Sure, I'm fine with the notion of this being handled in u-r-u instead of in
apt itself; but the general problem of cruft left behind across upgrades
should not be ignored.

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  APT::AutoRemove::SuggestsImportant "false" should be the default

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