Debian Bug report logs - #756816
document "apt(-get) (dist-)upgrade pkga pkgb-"

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Package: apt; Maintainer for apt is APT Development Team <[email protected]>; Source for apt is src:apt (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: Axel Beckert <[email protected]>

Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2014 00:06:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version apt/1.1~exp2

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On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 12:20 PM, David Kalnischkies
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Well, there is apts usual reason: If you care enough to mention the
> package explicitly on the commandline, you properly don't want apt to
> suggest its removal later on.
>
> I can't say I am a huge fan of that, but it is at least very consistent
> and avoids that the autoremoval is overagressive – or do I really want
> it to remove my favorite shell because it isn't needed anymore? ;)

Could we get rid of it for the "apt" tool? We have apt-mark to set
manual/automatic, so there's not much point anymore. Especially since
this often happens by accident (at least for me, with install).

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Julian Andres Klode  - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member

See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/.

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