Bug#431737: apt: Enable APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections for metapackages, once section is added

2012-03-01 Thread Julian Andres Klode
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 05:48:32AM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: I'm a bit confused about the status of this bug. The 'metapackages' section has been added and the default configuration has the requested change, but (1) the configuration variable doesn't appear to be documented (2) it doesn't

Bug#431737: apt: Enable APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections for metapackages, once section is added

2012-03-01 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 12:19:16PM +0100, Julian Andres Klode wrote: On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 05:48:32AM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: [...] Now, I do actually want the dependencies of metapackages built from linux-latest still to be marked auto-installed. But I'm not sure whether this is the

Bug#431737: apt: Enable APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections for metapackages, once section is added

2012-02-28 Thread Ben Hutchings
I'm a bit confused about the status of this bug. The 'metapackages' section has been added and the default configuration has the requested change, but (1) the configuration variable doesn't appear to be documented (2) it doesn't appear to have any effect. I tested with apt 0.8.15.9 installed,