Bug#727799: (no subject)

[Jascha Geerds <jg@ekby.de>]

I've just created a new debian sid installation inside a chroot using
debootstrap. If I install "gnome-core" in it, there are a dozen of
gnome-core packages which are marked as manually installed even though I
only installed a single package. I don't think that this is the right
behavior.

I've expected that there is only one more package in the "manually
installed" package list (namely "gnome-core") but instead I saw a lot of
other packages. These packages are marked as manually installed:

baobab brasero caribou caribou-antler dconf-cli dconf-editor dconf-tools
empathy eog evince  fonts-cantarell gdm3 gnome-backgrounds
gnome-calculator gnome-core gnome-dictionary gnome-disk-utility
gnome-font-viewer gnome-icon-themes-extras gnome-packagekit gnome-panel
gnome-screenshot gnome-system-log gnome-terminal gtk2-engines gucharmap
gvfs-bin iceweasel libatk-adaptor libcanberra-pulse
libcaribou-gtk-module libcaribou-gtk3-module libjbig0 libpangox-1.0-0
libpangoxft-1.0-0 tracker-gui vino

So nearly every direct dependency of the "gnome-core" package is going
to be marked as manually installed. You can reproduce it like this:

- set up debian chroot using debootstrap
- open aptitude in interactive mode
- search for "gnome-core"
- press "+" to mark this package to be installed
- press "g" and see what would have happened


Unfortunately, I saw this kind of problem several times with different
packages… regardless of whether I used aptitude or apt-get to install
the packages. Within aptitude's interactive mode you can see what
aptitude is planning to do and even then are packages with an invalid
"manually installed" flag.

FYI: I do not install recommended or suggested packages by default:

APT::Install-Recommends "false";
APT::Install-Suggests "false";

Do you have any idea? If you need more information, please let me know.

-- 
  Jascha Geerds
  jg@ekby.de