[Bug 1163155] Re: keep the 3 or 5 youngest linux-image-*-generic and autoremove the rest

[Juhani Numminen]

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Title:
  keep the 3 or 5 youngest linux-image-*-generic and autoremove the rest

Status in apt package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Keep a configurable number (per default maybe 3) of the youngest installed generic kernel images.
  Onlye the generic ones! Selfbuild kernels are not affected of that.

  Ubuntu-Systems running very long without reinstallation. After some
  years of updating there are a lot of old kernel-images installed but
  never used. It is a lot of space for mobile devices like netbooks,
  laptops or smaller.

  
  It can be realize (like feudora does) with a meta-package like "kernel-lates" which is assoziated with the last/youngest 3 kernels.

  All older one would be autoremoved.

  Of course there could be selected another solution to make it easier
  to configure if someone need to keep all old kernels.

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