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Re: Why was this package removed but apt?

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On Fri 12 Jan 2018 at 10:04:52 (+0100), Jonathan Sélea wrote:

> It seems like
> 
> Unattended-Upgrade::Remove-Unused-Dependencies "false";
> 
> Is not "false" by default but indeed true in unattended-upgrades on
> Debian 9 (stretch)
> Am I wrong about that?

--✄--------

* `Unattended-Upgrade::Remove-Unused-Dependencies` - boolean (default:False)

 Remove all unused dependencies after the upgrade finished.

* `Unattended-Upgrade::Remove-New-Unused-Dependencies` - boolean (default:True)

 Remove any new unused dependencies after the upgrade finished.

--✄--------

Perhaps the latter occurred.

> On 01/11/18 16:27, Jonathan Sélea wrote:
> >Well, it was removed by unattended-upgrades according to term.log
> >and apt.log :)
> >
> >/ Jonathan
> >
> >
> >On 01/11/2018 03:35 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> >>>It was installed manually by me:
> >>>apt install php7.1-mbstring
> >>>So I "explicitly asked" apt to install that package actually.
> >>So now the question is why/how did this package end up marked
> >>"automatically installed" (or if it wasn't, why did unattended-upgrades
> >>remove it even tho it wasn't marked as automatically-installed; tho this
> >>would most likely be a bug in unattended-upgrades and I think such a bug
> >>is rather unlikely at this stage).

Cheers,
David.

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Why was this package removed but apt? Jonathan Sélea <jonathan@selea.se> - 2018-01-10 11:30 +0100
  Re: Why was this package removed but apt? Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2018-01-10 11:40 +0100
  Re: Why was this package removed but apt? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2018-01-10 11:50 +0100
    Re: Why was this package removed but apt? Jonathan Sélea <jonathan@selea.se> - 2018-01-10 12:10 +0100
      Re: Why was this package removed but apt? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2018-01-10 12:20 +0100
        Re: Why was this package removed but apt? Jonathan Sélea <jonathan@selea.se> - 2018-01-10 12:40 +0100
          Re: Why was this package removed but apt? MAS Jean-Louis <jean-louis.mas@imag.fr> - 2018-01-10 15:10 +0100
            Re: Why was this package removed but apt? Jonathan Sélea <jonathan@selea.se> - 2018-01-10 16:00 +0100
          Re: Why was this package removed but apt? Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2018-01-11 15:20 +0100
            Re: Why was this package removed but apt? Jonathan Sélea <jonathan@selea.se> - 2018-01-11 16:30 +0100
              Re: Why was this package removed but apt? Jonathan Sélea <jonathan@selea.se> - 2018-01-12 10:10 +0100
                Re: Why was this package removed but apt? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-01-12 16:40 +0100

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