[Bug 797859] Re: apt-get remove started removing no-dependent packages

[Julian Andres Klode]

Obviously a meta package was removed prior to this package, causing all
of it's dependencies to be selected for removal. As far as I know,
that's supposed not to happen in the Ubuntu archive as metapackages are
in the metapackages section which APT then treats differently, but
that's the only reasonable explanation for this bug.

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Title:
  apt-get remove started removing no-dependent packages

Status in “apt” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: apt

  I used the command 
  sudo apt-get remove lamp-server^
  and it started removing packages that weren't put in when I installed lamp-server such as
  gdm , krita and plenty of other things my system needed to run

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