[Bug 782763] Re: update-manager marks updated packages as "Manually installed"

[Yung-Chin Oei]

Confirmed: I see the same behaviour on a system that now runs 12.04
(Precise).

(I believe fkrull is right that this was a problem for quite a while
already, but have never paid attention to it much, as more than 9 out of
10 upgrades I run out of aptitude)

Desired behaviour: update-manager would play nice with M-flags, applying
them to packages it upgrades, or installs as dependencies.

Workaround for now: run aptitude full-upgrade instead.

** Changed in: update-manager (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Confirmed

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Title:
  update-manager marks updated packages as "Manually installed"

Status in “update-manager” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: update-manager

  In Ubuntu Natty, update-manager marks any packages that it upgraded as
  "Manually installed"; it didn't in Maverick and before.

  I don't know if this is actually a bug or in fact the new expected
  behaviour, but it loses information about the state of the package
  database. I generally mark almost all packages on my system as
  automatically installed; since Natty, I always have to change that
  flag on a lot of packages after using update-manager.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
  Package: update-manager 1:0.150
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic-pae 2.6.38.2
  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic-pae i686
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Sat May 14 20:27:35 2011
  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release Candidate i386 (20100928)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=de_DE:en
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: update-manager
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-22 (22 days ago)

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