Package: aptitude Version: 0.8.7-1 Severity: normal For some reason aptitude refuses to automatically remove kernel packages that apt-get would remove - and it doesn't even know why:
# apt autoremove Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: linux-image-4.12.0-0.bpo.2-amd64 linux-image-4.14.0-0.bpo.2-amd64 linux-image-4.9.0-3-amd64 linux-image-4.9.0-4-amd64 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 4 to remove and 0 not upgraded. After this operation, 770 MB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n Abort. # aptitude why linux-image-4.9.0-3-amd64 Automatically installed, current version 4.9.30-2+deb9u5, priority optional No dependencies require to install linux-image-4.9.0-3-amd64 # aptitude upgrade No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed. 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used. (same result when entering interactive mode and pressing "g"). -- Package-specific info: Terminal: xterm-256color $DISPLAY is set. which aptitude: /usr/bin/aptitude aptitude version information: aptitude 0.8.7 Compiler: g++ 6.3.0 20170406 Compiled against: apt version 5.0.1 NCurses version 6.0 libsigc++ version: 2.10.0 Gtk+ support disabled. Qt support disabled. Current library versions: NCurses version: ncurses 6.0.20161126 cwidget version: 0.5.17 Apt version: 5.0.1 aptitude linkage: linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffc9dbea000) libapt-pkg.so.5.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.5.0 (0x00007fd293229000) libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 (0x00007fd292ff9000) libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0x00007fd292dcf000) libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007fd292bc8000) libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcwidget.so.3 (0x00007fd2928cb000) libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x00007fd2925c3000) libboost_iostreams.so.1.62.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_iostreams.so.1.62.0 (0x00007fd2923ab000) libboost_filesystem.so.1.62.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_filesystem.so.1.62.0 (0x00007fd292192000) libboost_system.so.1.62.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_system.so.1.62.0 (0x00007fd291f8e000) libxapian.so.30 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxapian.so.30 (0x00007fd291b7a000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007fd29195d000) libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007fd2915db000) libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007fd2912d7000) libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007fd2910c0000) libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007fd290d21000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007fd290b1d000) libresolv.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libresolv.so.2 (0x00007fd290906000) libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007fd2906ec000) libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007fd2904dc000) liblzma.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblzma.so.5 (0x00007fd2902b6000) liblz4.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblz4.so.1 (0x00007fd2900a4000) librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007fd28fe9c000) libuuid.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007fd28fc97000) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007fd293bf2000) -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.4 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.14.0-0.bpo.3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages aptitude depends on: ii aptitude-common 0.8.7-1 ii libapt-pkg5.0 1.4.8 ii libboost-filesystem1.62.0 1.62.0+dfsg-4 ii libboost-iostreams1.62.0 1.62.0+dfsg-4 ii libboost-system1.62.0 1.62.0+dfsg-4 ii libc6 2.24-11+deb9u3 ii libcwidget3v5 0.5.17-4+b1 ii libgcc1 1:6.3.0-18+deb9u1 ii libncursesw5 6.0+20161126-1+deb9u2 ii libsigc++-2.0-0v5 2.10.0-1 ii libsqlite3-0 3.16.2-5+deb9u1 ii libstdc++6 6.3.0-18+deb9u1 ii libtinfo5 6.0+20161126-1+deb9u2 ii libxapian30 1.4.3-2 Versions of packages aptitude recommends: pn libparse-debianchangelog-perl <none> ii sensible-utils 0.0.9+deb9u1 Versions of packages aptitude suggests: ii apt-xapian-index 0.49 ii aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc] 0.8.7-1 ii debtags 2.1.2 ii tasksel 3.39 -- no debconf information