>  If you show those packages (e.g., with "aptitude show", do they show
>as being automatically installed?

Yes:

tucano:/tmp# dpkg --purge glpk
(Reading database ... 342694 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing glpk ...

tucano:/tmp# dpkg --purge libglpk-dev
(Reading database ... 342685 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing libglpk-dev ...

tucano:/tmp# aptitude install bash
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information      
Initializing package states... Done
Writing extended state information... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  glpk-doc{u} glpk-utils{u} 
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 1892kB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] n
Abort.

tucano:/tmp# aptitude unmarkauto glpk-doc glpk-utils
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information      
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  glpk-doc{u} glpk-utils{u} 
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 1892kB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] n
Abort.

tucano:/tmp# aptitude show glpk-doc glpk-utils
Package: glpk-doc
New: yes
State: not installed
Automatically installed: yes
Version: 4.29-2
Priority: optional
Section: doc
Maintainer: Debian Scientific Computation Team 
<pkg-scicomp-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Uncompressed Size: 508k
Conflicts: glpk (< 4.15)
Description: linear programming kit - documentation files
 GLPK (GNU Linear Programming Kit) is intended for solving large-scale linear
 programming (LP), mixed integer programming (MIP), and other related problems.
 It is a set of routines written in ANSI C and organized in the form of a
 callable library. 
 
 This package contains the C API reference manual and the GNU MathProg modeling
 language manual.
Homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/glpk/glpk.html

Package: glpk-utils
New: yes
State: not installed
Automatically installed: yes
Version: 4.29-2
Priority: optional
Section: math
Maintainer: Debian Scientific Computation Team 
<pkg-scicomp-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Uncompressed Size: 360k
Depends: libglpk0 (= 4.29-2), libc6 (>= 2.7-1), libgmp3c2, libltdl3 (>=
         1.5.2-2), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4)
Conflicts: glpk (< 4.15)
Description: linear programming kit - documentation files
 GLPK (GNU Linear Programming Kit) is intended for solving large-scale linear
 programming (LP), mixed integer programming (MIP), and other related problems.
 It is a set of routines written in ANSI C and organized in the form of a
 callable library. 
 
 This package contains the following stand-alone tools: 
 * glpsol: LP/MIP solver 
 * tspsol: TSP solver
Homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/glpk/glpk.html

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