[Bug 1721364] [NEW] Never-MarkAuto-Sections not working

[Brian Murray]

Public bug reported:

"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

** Affects: apt (Ubuntu)
     Importance: High
         Status: New


** Tags: artful rls-aa-incoming xenial zesty

** Tags added: artful rls-aa-incoming xenial zesty

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Title:
  Never-MarkAuto-Sections not working

Status in apt package in Ubuntu:
  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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