Ah-ha, thanks for that pointer, David. We are, indeed, carrying that broken patch, and I can infer from Raphaël's overreaching patch (and followup discussion) what you're more likely to do as a conservative stable update. So, if you don't get around to said stable update, I'll cook up some SRUs for Ubuntu and see how they go.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to apt in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1479207 Title: Never-MarkAuto-Sections not working correctly Status in apt package in Ubuntu: New Status in apt source package in Trusty: New Status in apt source package in Vivid: New Bug description: In current trusty, vivid, and wily, when you install ubuntu-minimal (from the "metapackages" section) in a clean chroot, some 75ish packages are installed. If you then "apt-get --purge autoremove ubuntu-minimal", some large portion (between 20 and 40, depending on the target release) of those dependencies are removed again. If this test is repeated putting the release pocket version of apt/libapt on hold, the purge/autoremove only removes the metapackage, but none of its dependencies, so this is likely a regression brought on from the previous autoremoval fix. This bug is release-critical for the 14.04.3 point release, as we install using metapackages instead of tasks in point releases, thus meaning that anyone removing ubuntu-desktop for any reason will end up with dozens (potentially hundreds) of packages on the autoremoval list. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/1479207/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
