Package: packagekit Version: 1.1.0-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
I'm running GNOME. If I got this right, then GNOME Software pilots PackageKit to download updates, and eventually update the packages. Updated packages are downloaded and stored in: /var/cache/apt/archives/ I just clicked the "Restart and Update" button in Software. As a result, my system rebooted and everything was updated. My system is now fully up-to-date: # apt list --upgradable Listing... Done # However, the packages have been left on the system: # du -sh /var/cache/apt/archives/ 309M /var/cache/apt/archives/ This has the potential to completely fill up the disk. In fact, that happened to me a couple of weeks ago, but then I didn't have time to figure things out, and I just cleared that directory as a stop-gap measure. Now that I had time, I made sure that I could reproduce this issue: 1. I ensured /var/cache/apt/archives/ was empty 2. I hit the refresh button in Software, which checked for updates and downloaded the packages, prompting me to reboot and install updates 3. I complied, rebooted and installed the updates 4. I verified that the folder is still full. I hadn't done updates for some time already, which is why there were so many things to download/update. I'm pretty sure this doesn't happen on Fedora (which uses PackageKit's Hif backend), so I would venture a guess that the issue is in the Apt backend used on Debian. -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers testing-updates APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.3.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_HK.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_HK.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages packagekit depends on: ii gdebi-core 0.9.5.7 ii libapt-inst2.0 1.2.4 ii libapt-pkg5.0 1.2.4 ii libc6 2.21-9 ii libgcc1 1:5.3.1-8 ii libglib2.0-0 2.46.2-3 ii libglib2.0-bin 2.46.2-3 ii libgstreamer1.0-0 1.6.3-1 ii libpackagekit-glib2-18 1.1.0-1 ii libpolkit-gobject-1-0 0.105-14.1 ii libsqlite3-0 3.10.2-1 ii libstdc++6 5.3.1-8 ii libsystemd0 229-2 ii policykit-1 0.105-14.1 Versions of packages packagekit recommends: ii packagekit-tools 1.1.0-1 Versions of packages packagekit suggests: ii appstream [appstream-index] 0.9.1-1 -- no debconf information
