[Bug 139448] Re: apt should not set packages to manually installed when reinstalling

[Jarno Suni]

Relating Bug #1482959

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Title:
  apt should not set packages to manually installed when reinstalling

Status in apt package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  ISI\jhaltom at station-1:/var/crash$ sudo apt-get install --reinstall cpp-4.2
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree       
  Reading state information... Done
  cpp-4.2 set to manual installed.
  0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 28 not upgraded.

  
  I don't think this is appropiate to do. It should only be set to manually installed when it is being installed from scratch.

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