I feel like I must have messed something up, yet no idea what:
Just a few days ago, apt-get -s autoremove was clean. Nothing to remove
Now, it has these packages, supposedly removable: webmin-virtualmin-(dav,git,init,registrar,slavedns,sqlite)
None of them show any ‘rdepends’ reverse dependencies.
I am feeling quite dumb at this point. No idea why they were needed, nor why they suddenly are not. Anyone know a common thread here? Is there a package requiring some/all of those, that’s not listed in my local pkg database?
That’s a quite old installation, installed way back in the Virtualmin 5 days (or maybe Virtualmin 6), I would guess? Dependencies have been simplified in the default install, some because they’ve been deprecated and sometimes just because they are rarely used and we wanted to simplify the default installation for less technical users.
If you don’t use those modules, you can remove them. But, if you are using them, you want to set them to manually installed (apt install <packagename> will remove it from the list of removable packages).