The package was installed before, as a dependency of another package probably.
Now that you've "manually" installed it, it is marked as such.
This means, that e.g. "apt-get autoremove" will not consider this package to be
not required anymore if you remove the package which pulled the (now) manual
installed package in (xserver-xorg-input-synaptics).
I think this bug report should be used to
a) clarify the output of apt-get
b) add documentation about this to e.g. the man page of apt-get. I could not
find anything about this feature there or in the "apt-doc" package
** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu)
Status: Unconfirmed => Confirmed
** Summary changed:
- set to manual installed.
+ Documentation: "<package> set to manual installed"
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Documentation: "<package> set to manual installed"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/118728
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