[Bug 1721364] Re: Never-MarkAuto-Sections not working

[Julian Andres Klode]

The behavior as specified in the bug report and the comments is
intended.

When installing a package in never mark auto, it is not marked as auto.
On removal, dependencies of it will be

(1) marked as manually if the package was removed as a result of a conflict or something
(2) kept as automatic if the package was removed explicitly

The old implementation that just marked all stuff as manual led to the
problem that installing a meta package and explicitly removing it did
not remove any dependencies.

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Title:
  Never-MarkAuto-Sections not working

Status in apt package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in apt package in Debian:
  New

Bug description:
  "apt-get --purge autoremove ubuntu-standard" wants to remove a lot
  more packages than just ubuntu-standard. Bug 1479207 is a previous
  version of this.

  Using apt version 1.5 on Artful Aardvark:

  The following packages will be REMOVED:
    accountsservice* apparmor* bind9-host* busybox-static* command-not-found* command-not-found-data* cpio* cron* dbus* dh-python* distro-info-data* dmidecode* dnsutils*
    friendly-recovery* ftp* fuse* geoip-database* gettext-base* gir1.2-glib-2.0* hdparm* info* iptables* iputils-tracepath* irqbalance* iso-codes* krb5-locales*
    language-selector-common* libaccountsservice0*...

  This does work correctly on Trusty with apt version 1.0.1ubuntu2.17.

  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree       
  Reading state information... Done
  The following packages will be REMOVED:
    ubuntu-standard*
  0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
  After this operation, 61.4 kB disk space will be freed.
  Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n

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