On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 12:54:15PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Sun, 2016-06-19 at 14:35 -0700, Leo L. Schwab wrote:
> >     When you install task-xfce-desktop, from a dependency standpoint, it
> > becomes the "parent" of all things XFCE -- the task is marked as manually
> > installed; its dependencies are marked as automatically installed,
> [...]
> 
> That's no longer the case.  APT does not to do this when the depending
> package is in section 'metapackages' or 'oldlibs'.
>
        Cool; I didn't know that.  (Where's that written down?)

        task-xfce-desktop is in the section 'tasks'.  Do the same rules
apply there?

                                        Schwab

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