> apt-mark showmanual gives you the complement of apt-mark showauto. > The second paragraph of apt-mark's description explains what's meant > by "auto". So "manual" doesn't mean what you appear to assume it does, > that you were involved in manually selecting it for installation. It > just means "not auto".
To me "auto" means "not manually", so I'm just as confused as Rodolfo and I think for good reasons. There might be technical reasons behind the way it currently works, but I think this qualifies as a bug (maybe a UI bug, maybe a coding bug, maybe a doc bug). Stefan