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

[Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>]

On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 12:19:16PM +0100, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 05:48:32AM +0000, 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 intended behaviour or not.
> 
> The intented behavior should be to have them manually installed
> AFAIK. But kernel packages are special anyway, they won't be
> treated as automatically installed even if they are, thanks
> to APT::NeverAutoRemove in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/01autoremove --
> APT will never automatically remove a kernel image or the
> firmware-linux meta packages.

I'm well aware of that misfeature but I'll ask for that to be changed
separately.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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