I have some final comments, I don't wish to start a dialog here since there is a non-issue and I am glad for it to be closed.
On 19 September 2012 13:41, Sworddragon <667...@bugs.launchpad.net> wrote: > This all is now ~2 years ago and the dependencies of alsa-utils has > changed so that I had to test it with other packages and apt-get > autoremove PKG will work as expected: It removes the given package and > does an autoremove after this. Please check the man page for apt-get which documents that “autoremove” takes no arguments. You can not expect “apt-get autoremove PKG" to do anything other than report an error: takes no arguments. … but readers of the report understood your point, that you expected: # apt-get remove PKG # apt-get autoremove to remove all packages which were auto-installed by: # apt-get install PKG There are good reasons why this is not so. The issue has been reported several times and it is almost never a bug. > It seems nobody has tried to fix this bug directly because he saw this > ticket. It is not clear there is a bug. 1. You try to use “autoremove PKG” which is not documented, therefore can not be a bug. 2. We need to know the state of related packages on the system in question to know whether the real “remove PKG && autoremove” should have removed linux-sound-base or not. This is no longer possible due to the age of the report. > I have seen often tickets which was miraculous fixed after a > while. This is nothing special because some bugs are randomy fixed with > a commit. And in ~2 years there were surely many commits released which > had the chance to randomly fix this issue. Indeed. However the difference is that knowing a bug has been fixed is not the same as no longer being able to reproduce it, which is the case here. I just ask you to keep this in mind when closing reports. If you can not reproduce: incomplete or invalid. If you can identify when it was fixed (changelog entry): fix released. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/667468 Title: apt-get autoremove don't find all packages To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/667468/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
