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. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to apt in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1721364 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 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/1721364/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
