On Fri 21 Nov 2025 at 19:54:11 (-0500), Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Fri, Nov 21, 2025 at 4:39 PM David Wright wrote: > > On Fri 21 Nov 2025 at 15:00:39 (-0500), Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > > As Šarūnas said, the two packages of interest on Debian are > > > linux-image-amd64 and linux-headers-amd64. I even go so fars as to > > > apt-mark them as automatic: > > > > > > apt-get install -y linux-image-amd64 linux-headers-amd64 > > > apt-mark auto linux-image-amd64 linux-headers-amd64 > > > > Hmm. My reading of APT's autoremove is that marking these packages > > as auto makes them /more/ vulnerable to autoremoval, not less. > > According to the docs: > > > > "Packages which you have installed explicitly via install > > are also never proposed for automatic removal." > > Yeah, I do that because Debian marks the packages it installs as auto. > Also see `apt-mark showauto` and `apt-mark showmanual`.
Presumably by "Debian … installs" you mean as a result of Depends: or Recommends:. But why do you want to imply that what you installed manually (in the first commandline above) was installed by Debian, so that Debian could just remove them again as /apparently/ not being needed? On Sun 23 Nov 2025 at 07:17:03 (-0500), Jeffrey Walton wrote: > Based on 94f70f3232557a51a87bcde455bd2dge's comment at [0] , doing > what Debian does for Trixie is probably a bad idea! > > [0] <https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2025/11/msg00399.html> If, as likely, that's the cause of the OPs' problems (in this and the other thread, as with bug #1091428), then it's likely that the history.log I mentioned has not yet been rotated into oblivion, and can confirm the bug. Cheers, David.
