Bug#678889: autoremove: Does not remove suggested packages independent of APT::Install-Suggests

[Dominique Lasserre <lasserre.d@googlemail.com>]

My understanding of this autoremove feature is:
When I install a package which comes with some "hard" dependencies,
(auto)removal of this package should remove what was installed before
(except if I install those dependencies manually or if there are some
packages which depend on them).

Please look at (Ubuntu) example here (installation of lighttpd and
php5-cgi; libterm-readline-perl-perl keeps installed because of reverse
suggested dependencies to icoutils and perl):
http://paste.ubuntuusers.de/409287/

Imho this behavior is not sensible and you have to use other tools like
deborphan to track those "orphaned" packages. (In fact in German support
thread [1] we had to look closer at it to find reason why not all
packages got removed.)


I know this feature would not be very important but I hope to convince
you with example above that it would be the expected behavior ;) .


Regards

Dominique Lasserre


[1]:
http://forum.ubuntuusers.de/topic/abhaengigkeiten-zusammen-mit-installiertem-pro/