See this commit for the implementation and the reasoning:
https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/apt/apt.git/commit/?h=7c2cc4a7bc999c8e07fba607354bfaa3b09118f9
** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Opinion
** Changed in: apt (Debian)
Status: New => Opinion
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1721364
Title:
Never-MarkAuto-Sections not working
Status in apt package in Ubuntu:
Opinion
Status in apt package in Debian:
Opinion
Bug description:
"apt-get --purge autoremove ubuntu-standard" wants to remove a lot
more packages than just ubuntu-standard. Bug 1479207 is a previous
version of this.
Using apt version 1.5 on Artful Aardvark:
The following packages will be REMOVED:
accountsservice* apparmor* bind9-host* busybox-static* command-not-found*
command-not-found-data* cpio* cron* dbus* dh-python* distro-info-data*
dmidecode* dnsutils*
friendly-recovery* ftp* fuse* geoip-database* gettext-base*
gir1.2-glib-2.0* hdparm* info* iptables* iputils-tracepath* irqbalance*
iso-codes* krb5-locales*
language-selector-common* libaccountsservice0*...
This does work correctly on Trusty with apt version 1.0.1ubuntu2.17.
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
ubuntu-standard*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 61.4 kB disk space will be freed.
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