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

[Brian Murray]

Using the test in debian bug 793360.

$ sudo apt-mark showmanual >before
$ sudo apt-get -o Debug::pkgDepCache::AutoInstall=true install ubuntu-standard
[...]
$ sudo apt-mark showmanual >after
$ diff -u before after
--- before      2017-10-04 11:36:41.967980781 -0700
+++ after       2017-10-04 11:37:47.615979019 -0700
@@ -119,6 +119,7 @@
 tar
 tzdata
 ubuntu-keyring
+ubuntu-standard
 util-linux
 vim
 xz-utils

Only ubuntu-standard was marked as manually installed and none of its
dependencies were.  ubuntu-standard has a section of "metapackages" and
some of my apt-config follows:

# apt-config dump | grep Sections
APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections "";
APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: "metapackages";
APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: "contrib/metapackages";
APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: "non-free/metapackages";
APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: "restricted/metapackages";
APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: "universe/metapackages";
APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: "multiverse/metapackages";
APT::Move-Autobit-Sections "";
APT::Move-Autobit-Sections:: "oldlibs";
APT::Move-Autobit-Sections:: "contrib/oldlibs";
APT::Move-Autobit-Sections:: "non-free/oldlibs";
APT::Move-Autobit-Sections:: "restricted/oldlibs";
APT::Move-Autobit-Sections:: "universe/oldlibs";
APT::Move-Autobit-Sections:: "multiverse/oldlibs";

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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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