[Bug 2009603] Re: apt autoremove doesn´t catch all old kernels

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Title:
  apt autoremove doesn´t catch all old kernels

Status in apt package in Ubuntu:
  Expired

Bug description:
  I have an install with nominally 500MB as /boot. I'm regularly running beyond that limit at updates. 
  Instead of manually picking out old files and apt --purge, I found that more recently apt autoremove would do that task. That brought me down by 11 MB only, from 100%:
  445 401 11 98%
  apt update apt upgrade apt autoremove and reboot didn't improve the situation.

  A tad reluctantly I installed byobu and ran one session of purge-old-kernels. Result:
  445 277 135 68%
  I can live with that; though I couldn't with the result above. 
  Of course, I'd prefer apt autoremove to do everything in a single go. But what it does, does not actually warrant the deprecation of purge-old-kernels. I'm surely not the only person with a tight budget when using a separate /boot of an old installation. Or, as in my case, a fresh install into an old, formerly partitioned drive.

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