[Bug 1472351] Re: autoremove keeps *all* providers of virtual rdeps unconditionally

[thermoman]

This is still an issue in 16.04 LTS even with virtualbox-5.1 package
from official xenial repository - please see bug #1636203

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Title:
  autoremove keeps *all* providers of virtual rdeps unconditionally

Status in apt package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Hi,
  i'm using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and I have an issue with autoremove command.

  The point is that I have Virtualbox package installed that has
  following tag:

  Recommends: linux-headers

  As a result autoremove marks all of linux-headers-*/linux-headers-*-generic
  packages as required and declines to sweep them. Please check the attached
  log file.

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