Bug#756816: apt: "apt-get upgrade packagename" should not set packagename to manually installed
Package: apt
Version: 1.1~exp2
Severity: normal
Dear APT Developers,
it seems that -- despite the documentation suggests otherwise -- you now
can pass package names as parameter to "apt-get upgrade" and it does
what you expect: Try to upgrade only that package.
But it also seems to set the given package to "manually installed" for
which there is no reason at all:
# apt-get upgrade zsh
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... zsh is already the newest version.
zsh set to manually installed. <---------------- This shouldn't happen!
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
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-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (600, 'testing'), (110, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.15-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii debian-archive-keyring 2012.4
ii gnupg 1.4.18-2
ii libapt-pkg4.13 1.1~exp2
ii libc6 2.19-7
ii libgcc1 1:4.9.1-4
ii libstdc++6 4.9.1-4
apt recommends no packages.
Versions of packages apt suggests:
ii apt-doc 1.0.6
ii aptitude 0.6.11-1
ii dpkg-dev 1.17.10
ii python-apt 0.9.3.8
ii synaptic 0.81.2
ii wajig 2.14
-- no debconf information
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