I'm releasing 2.7.7 now which includes the fix.
Still waiting for an important bug (or feature) to appear to drag the
fix alongside with in an SRU. All branches are green though :)
** Also affects: apt (Ubuntu Noble)
Importance: High
Assignee: Julian Andres Klode (juliank)
Status: Fix Committed
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1995790
Title:
regression: ?garbage does not work correctly in install commands
Status in apt package in Ubuntu:
Fix Committed
Status in apt source package in Jammy:
Triaged
Status in apt source package in Lunar:
Won't Fix
Status in apt source package in Mantic:
Triaged
Status in apt source package in Noble:
Fix Committed
Bug description:
The awesome apt has a some wonderful tips on their EXAMPLES section
(printed below). The choice of name to "garbage" might not have been
the best but the function is extremely useful.
$ man apt-patterns | sed '/EXAMPLES/,/^[^ ]/!d;/^[^ ]/d'
apt remove ?garbage
Remove all packages that are automatically installed and no longer
needed -
same as apt autoremove
apt purge ?config-files
Purge all packages that only have configuration files left
apt list '~i !~M (~slibs|~sperl|~spython)'
List all manually-installed packages in sections matching libs,
perl, or
python.
Lets mark a package as automatically installed, and use the examples.
$ sudo apt-mark auto shotwell
shotwell set to automatically installed.
$ sudo apt remove ?garbage
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer
required:
libraw20 shotwell shotwell-common
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
$ sudo apt autoremove
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
libraw20 shotwell shotwell-common
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 3 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 9.806 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] N
Abort.
Apt-patterns works as it should everywhere else, as far as I can see,
it works wonders with ie `apt list '~g|~c'` and many other
applications. I used `apt purge '~g|~c'` successfully in Ubuntu 20.04
for years, so I feel this is a regression.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04
Package: apt 2.4.8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.15.0-52.58-generic 5.15.60
Uname: Linux 5.15.0-52-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu82.1
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Sun Nov 6 10:57:52 2022
SourcePackage: apt
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to jammy on 2022-03-26 (224 days ago)
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