Bug#727799: apt-get not marking manual correctly and apt-mark showmanual also wrong

[David Kalnischkies <kalnischkies+debian@gmail.com>]

Hi,

On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 1:14 AM, cluelesscoder <cluelesscoder@gmail.com> wrote:
> However only  5 packages also didn't seem right, and when I installed a couple packages manually, they didn't get added to /var/lib/extended_states at all (as either automatic or manual). The packages were pudb and reportbug. There are other places online where people have commented on the same thing which I can add later if you want, but they don't provide any insight into why.

Please note that packages listed in extended_states are NOT manually
installed, the packages listed are automatically installed.
Every package not in that list is manually installed.

Note also that some packages which normally would be auto-installed
are marked otherwise because they or their 'depender' are in special
sections.

So its normal that if you do:
$ apt-get install foo
NEW: foo

nothing changes in regards of the extended states.

On the other hand, if it is:
$ apt-get install foo
NEW: foo foo-data

foo-data will appear in extended states as automatical installed.


Last hint:
If foo is automatical installed and you do:
$ apt-get install foo
at the end of the operation foo will be marked as manually installed.


Hopefully the logic is a bit more clear now. In that light, can you
rephrase your bugreport to detail which packages you installed exactly?


Best regards

David Kalnischkies