Bug#973253: apt: support installing/upgrading package and marking them as automatically installed

[Ansgar <ansgar@debian.org>]

Package: apt
Severity: wishlist

aptitude allows to install/upgrade packages and mark them as
automatically installed:

  aptitude install foo+M

I find this feature useful when asking to upgrade to a specific version
of a package, but not wanting to have it marked as manually installed.
A Cultist of the Cow has asked on IRC to file bugs for this.  Said
Cultist of the Cow has also indicated that juliank might be pleased by
this feature as well.

Ansgar