Package: aptitude Followup-For: Bug #816497 Auto flags seem to be totally broken.
I can mark a package for manual installation (vbetool), and just after the installation the package is marked as automatically installed and for removal. On the other side, aptitude-common was switched from automatically installed to manually installed for no reason. In fact, by cursory looking, looks like flags for *many* packages got flipped at random! -- Package-specific info: Terminal: linux which aptitude: /usr/bin/aptitude aptitude version information: aptitude 0.7.7 Compiler: g++ 5.3.1 20160224 Compiled against: apt version 5.0.0 NCurses version 6.0 libsigc++ version: 2.6.2 Gtk+ support disabled. Qt support disabled. Current library versions: NCurses version: ncurses 6.0.20160213 cwidget version: 0.5.17 Apt version: 5.0.0 aptitude linkage: linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffda0905000) libapt-pkg.so.5.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.5.0 (0x00007fddfb9a1000) libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 (0x00007fddfb771000) libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0x00007fddfb546000) libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007fddfb340000) libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcwidget.so.3 (0x00007fddfb043000) libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x00007fddfad6c000) libboost_iostreams.so.1.58.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_iostreams.so.1.58.0 (0x00007fddfab52000) libboost_filesystem.so.1.58.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_filesystem.so.1.58.0 (0x00007fddfa939000) libboost_system.so.1.58.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_system.so.1.58.0 (0x00007fddfa734000) libxapian.so.22 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxapian.so.22 (0x00007fddfa330000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007fddfa113000) libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007fddf9d8f000) libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007fddf9a8a000) libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007fddf9874000) libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007fddf94cf000) libutil.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libutil.so.1 (0x00007fddf92cc000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007fddf90c8000) libresolv.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libresolv.so.2 (0x00007fddf8eb0000) libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007fddf8c95000) libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007fddf8a85000) liblzma.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblzma.so.5 (0x00007fddf8861000) liblz4.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblz4.so.1 (0x00007fddf864f000) librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007fddf8446000) libuuid.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007fddf8241000) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x000055c6ddaaf000) -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (900, 'unstable'), (800, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.4.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages aptitude depends on: ii aptitude-common 0.7.7-1 ii libapt-pkg5.0 1.2.4 ii libboost-filesystem1.58.0 1.58.0+dfsg-5+b1 ii libboost-iostreams1.58.0 1.58.0+dfsg-5+b1 ii libboost-system1.58.0 1.58.0+dfsg-5+b1 ii libc6 2.21-9 ii libcwidget3v5 0.5.17-4+b1 ii libgcc1 1:6-20160228-1 ii libncursesw5 6.0+20160213-1 ii libsigc++-2.0-0v5 2.6.2-1 ii libsqlite3-0 3.11.0-2 ii libstdc++6 6-20160228-1 ii libtinfo5 6.0+20160213-1 ii libxapian22v5 1.2.22-3 Versions of packages aptitude recommends: pn aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-doc <none> ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-8 ii sensible-utils 0.0.9 Versions of packages aptitude suggests: ii apt-xapian-index 0.47+nmu2 ii debtags 2.0.2 pn tasksel <none>