Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: aptitude
In the output of 'aptitude show', the field "Automatically installed"
seems to display exactly the opposite of the real value, while search -F
'%p# %M' seems correct:
dbonniot ~ sudo aptitude markauto firefox
[...]
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
[...]
Writing extended state information... Done
[...]
dbonniot ~ sudo aptitude show firefox|grep Auto
Automatically installed: no
dbonniot ~ sudo aptitude search -F '%p# %M' 'firefox$'
firefox A
dbonniot ~ sudo aptitude unmarkauto firefox
[...]
dbonniot ~ sudo aptitude show firefox|grep Auto
Automatically installed: yes
dbonniot ~ sudo aptitude search -F '%p# %M' 'firefox$'
firefox
** Affects: aptitude (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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[gutsy] aptitude shows opposite value for "Automatically installed" field
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/173466
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