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

[Julian Andres Klode]

Conflict or something = If the meta package cannot be kept installed
because a dependency broke, APT will mark the remaining dependencies as
manually installed when removing the meta package.

But if you remove the meta package explicitly, you usually want to
remove the dependencies of it as well.

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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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