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

[Julian Andres Klode <jak@debian.org>]

On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 11:15:47PM +0100, Ansgar wrote:
> 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.

I am the cow bearer and I approve this message.

-- 
debian developer - deb.li/jak | jak-linux.org - free software dev
ubuntu core developer                              i speak de, en