[Bug 300718] Re: sometimes sets dependency packages to manual install

[Daniel Hartwig]

Note that the aptdaemon backend suffers from this problem as well due to
[1] (patch).

A similar patch could be applied to InstallBackendSynaptic.py to track
which packages were previously auto-installed and make sure they are
marked as such afterwards.  Otherwise, perhaps consider to just drop the
synaptic backend and apply the python-aptdaemon fix.

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/685044


** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #685044
   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=685044

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Title:
  sometimes sets dependency packages to manual install

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

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: update-manager

  Sometimes update-manager will set packages that are really automatic
  installs to manual install. This happens e.g. when a new dependency
  gets added. Because update-manager will run synaptic in non-
  interactive mode the information that this dependency got auto-
  installed is lost. This needs to be fixed.

  Check the other stuff that uses synaptic as its backend too (language-
  selector, gnome-app-install).

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