[Bug 1052864] Re: Behavior of apt-get autoremove with arguments

[Daniel Hartwig]

** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #548501
   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=548501

** Also affects: apt (Debian) via
   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=548501
   Importance: Unknown
       Status: Unknown

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Title:
  Behavior of apt-get autoremove with arguments

Status in “apt” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “apt” package in Debian:
  Unknown

Bug description:
  I'm using Ubuntu 12.10 dev with apt 0.9.7.5ubuntu2. As said in the
  other ticket
  (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/667468) it is not
  documented that apt-get autoremove does take any arguments. Let's see
  what happens if I try to remove a package which has 1 or more
  dependencies which are not recommended or suggested by other packages
  (normally every system has many of such packages): "apt-get remove
  filezilla" will try to remove filezilla but it also gives me the
  information that the packages "filezilla-common libtinyxml2.6.2
  libwxbase2.8-0 libwxgtk2.8-0" are not needed anymore. "apt-get
  autoremove filezilla" will try do remove "filezilla filezilla-common
  libtinyxml2.6.2 libwxbase2.8-0 libwxgtk2.8-0". Now there are 2
  possibilities:

  1. apt-get autoremove doesn't take any arguments and should show an error if there is one.
  2. It should be documented that "apt-get autoremove PKG" is like "apt-get remove PKG; apt-get autoremove".

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